While highly useful, always be careful when piping URLs directly to bash .
"It helps us onboard new software engineers and get them productive right away. We have all our source code, issues, and pull requests in one place... GitHub is a complete platform that frees us from menial tasks and enables us to do our best work." https://raw.githubusercontent.com
But what actually happens when you click that button, and why is it one of the most useful tools in a developer's workflow? While highly useful, always be careful when piping
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owner/repo/main/install.sh | bash While highly useful