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Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

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Re: Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

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Post by NelsonMinar »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #91
carb wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the suggested install for homebrew. http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/

There are legit criticisms against the copy-paste-curl-command style of installations. But on the other hand, I've yet to see a critic proposing a viable alternative. With viable I mean that said proposal must: 1. Work on all major platforms. 2. Be easy for the developer to create. 3. Be easy for the user to execute, with as few steps as possible. There are those who advocate that the developer should create a platfo…

The most viable alternative is "apt-get" which provides simple downloads from a central package repository with signature checking. I believe pip and cpan are comparable. In this case I'm picking on homebrew, and the quoted curl command is the command to install that very package tool. The brew package manager does some lightweight checksum verification on subsequent downloads.

Re: Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

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Post by qu4z-2 »

fnordfnordfnord wrote: post #157
TheJH_ wrote: post #117

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Definitely, I didn't even know that command :D - but I had to `apt-get install sl` on my machine first. Maybe just do a telnet to a nonstandard port on my server and then send special characters to do the animation? That could work...

Yeah, I didn't consider the fact that not everyone has sl on their machine.

It is a sad world we live in where some people don't have sl installed.

Re: Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

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Post by vacri »

gislifb wrote: post #77
micampe wrote: post #40

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I always thought this concept to be silly unless you are a sysadmin. For most people who are not sysadmins losing ~ is much worse than losing /. Go ahead and wipe my OS, I just care for my photos to be safe.

Could you please tell me in which directory your ~ directory is and in which directory that directory is?

Not to mention that it's sysadminny-types that you turn to when your OS is hosed and you want to recover data from your drive - having little or no sysadmin skills means recovery and reinstall is very much not trivial.

Re: Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

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Post by SkyMarshal »

anonymoushn wrote: post #85
NelsonMinar wrote: post #51

Why would I bother copying and pasting the code to my clipboard when common industry practice now is just to invoke the output of curl directly? ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go )

I was quite surprised when this was the normal way of installing rvm: https://rvm.io/rvm/install/

Hence why many use rbenv instead.

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv/#neckbeard-configuratio...

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv/wiki/Why-rbenv%3F

Re: Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

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Post by micampe »

gislifb wrote: post #77
micampe wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always thought this concept to be silly unless you are a sysadmin. For most people who are not sysadmins losing ~ is much worse than losing /. Go ahead and wipe my OS, I just care for my photos to be safe.

Could you please tell me in which directory your ~ directory is and in which directory that directory is?

You either enjoy pointless nitpicking or have entirely missed my point.
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