On 11/09/2015 07:46 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 00:42:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Piping through less would be a natural first thing to do. Also, let's
not forget that installing from the same site carries the same risks.
-- Andrei
Not necessarily. At least a separate download gives you a chance to
verify the download was completed too. Piping direct into shell could
deliver an end-of-file in the middle of a file (e.g. in the case of a
network error) which might change the results.
Most likely result is a half-finished installation leaving not-working
garbage on your system, but it might also run a different command...
rm -r /yourfile
is what it is supposed to do, but instead you received `rm -r /` <end of
file>... oops.
Color me convinced! -- Andrei
