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0xbadcafebee 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, runn...

   t=$(mktemp) && [ -w $t ] && curl foo.sh -o $t && echo "$t lksjdfkljshdkfljhdsklfjhslkdjfhsdlkjfhslkdjhf" | sha256sum -c - && bash $t

Uses standard tmp files, makes sure it's writable (tmp file creation can fail), checks cryptographic hash before executing

godelski 4 months ago [–]

Sure, but now we're not playing code golf. There's much better commands than the ones I wrote but good luck getting people to run them

0xbadcafebee 4 months ago | [–]

Agreed. People would rather have a cute looking command to copy than security or reliability

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