Shows that "right click, copy link, type wget ', paste, type ', enter" is a receipe to get pwned.
Same is probably true even when you do not paste it into a terminal but into a script. Like "Ok, I'm gonna automate downloading this ..."
If you’re lucky it works. If you’re somewhat less lucky but still on the positive side, it doesn’t work with some syntax error that doesn’t corrupt anything.
There’s no excuse for not reviewing what is being executed before actually running it.
wget -i ./urlsThe real risk of this sort of thing is basically Bash injection - people who have bash scripts as part of their infrastructure that process public data. Sounds insane, yes. But there's a scary number of people who think Bash scripting is a sane thing to do.