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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

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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.

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

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

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.

Have you tried aliases?

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

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

Thank you!

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?

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