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TZubiri 2 days ago

Huh

Why not just use the tools separately instead of bringing a third tool for this.

Curl -o script.sh

Cat script.sh

Bash script.sh

What a concept

▲ networked 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

What it comes down to is that people want a one-liner. Telling them they shouldn't use a one-liner doesn't work. Therefore, it is better to provide a safer one-liner.

This assumes that securing `curl | sh` separately from the binaries and packages the script downloads makes sense. I think it does. Theoretically, someone can compromise your site http://example.com with the installation script https://example.com/install.sh but not your binary downloads on GitHub. Reviewing the script lets the user notice that, for example, the download is not coming from the project's GitHub organization.

▲ bawolff 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you are really paranoid you should use cat -v, as otherwise terminal control characters can hide the malicious part of the script.

▲ panki27 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At this point, the whole world is just a complexity Olympiad

▲ adolph 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Same but less instead of cat so my fingers stay in the keyboard.

Vet, vite, etc are kind of like kitchen single-taskers like avocado slicer-scoopers. Surely some people get great value out of them but a table-knife works just fine for me and useful in many task flows.

I'd get more value out of a cross-platform copy-paster so I'm not skip-stepping in my mind between pbpaste and xclip.

▲ hsbauauvhabzb 2 days ago | parent [-]

Have you tried aliases?

▲ adolph 2 days ago | parent [-]

For pbpaste/pbcopy and xclip? I've considered it and haven't decided how to do it yet given differences in how they work. Do you have one?

https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip

https://ss64.com/mac/pbcopy.html

https://man.openbsd.org/xclipboard.1

▲ procaryote 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I do

    if ! which pbcopy &> /dev/null; then
        alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard"
        alias pbpaste="xclip -o -selection clipboard"
    fi

The `if` bit is so it only adds the alias if there isn't a `pbcopy`, so I can use the same dotfile on mac and linux

	▲	adolph 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you!

▲ hsbauauvhabzb 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m honestly not familiar with pbcopy, but I imagine you could make a relatively consistent wrapper in python if a simple alias does not work. Are you able to give some example shell code of what you’d like to be consistent?