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finally something worse then curl | sh (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 169 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Relevant XKCD:
Universal Install Script

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 72 points 6 days ago (3 children)

How am I still learning about XKCDs I've never seen especially ones in the 1000 range.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

It's the Key and Peele of geek comics

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When you first learnt about xkcd, did you not S L O O O R P the entire back catalogue?

I guess when I did that there were A LOT fewer. Cuz I'm old.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

I'm so old I remember anticipating the 404

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

if $1 is not installed after that, wipe your hard drive and start over

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It could be a crate...

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Script needs to be updated, Rust wasn't particularly popular back then (if it existed. I don't know how old this one is, but it's pretty old)

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago

March 11, 2016 according to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1654:_Universal_Install_Script

According to the Rust Wikipedia article, it was juuuust starting to be used in real things around that period. Definitely before it was popular.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

apt-get install
sudo apt-get install

sigh

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago

I know right could just be apt install

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can stop laughing at steamcmd.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 days ago

Good. If you couldn't that would be a real problem.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

With all those connected with & won't it skip the rest after the first failure? Or does 'no such program' or 'you don't have permission' not produce an error?

[–] Kimplul@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In bash, & just starts the program in the background, so all of the commands are run in parallel. You're probably thinking of &&, which runs the command on its left, checks its return code, and then decides whether run the command on the right.

Although, in this case there are no 'commands on the right' since all the commands are on separate lines. You'd need to backslash the commands together, something like

pip install "$1" && \
easy_install "$1" && \
...
[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

I saw it as wrapped, so couldn't dismiss the option that all were on a single logical line. But you're right, I was thinking of &&

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That would be &&.

A single & will run them in parallel.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks

[–] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, it should have been a ; instead.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

(clears throat in Zypper install)

:p