Comment by oefrha

curl | sh is actually bad because a completely innocuous script can become dangerous with a network hiccup, e.g.

  rm -rf /path/to/directory

becomes

  rm -rf /path

if the connection accidentally drops half way. Or something less dramatic, but still leaving you in a broken state.

Some people took the “don’t curl | sh” advice as “you have to inspect every line of a shell script installer you download”, which is of course absurd.