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Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side by bigDinosaur on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:06AM (#34149267)
Extreme simplicity. This is the installation equivalent to updating your website by scp-ing in a new index.html.
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Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side by blacklion on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:08PM (#34150733)
To be honest, if you site is static-generated (where "generated" includes "typed by you in text editor") this approach hasn't any drawbacks to more complex schemes.

Installing software via running random scripts has a ton of drawbacks to using system package manager.

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