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		vorakl on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to destroy your OS with tar I don't recall ever seeing this approach with sudo. Is it really becoming popular? It used to be just bash, e.g. `curl ... \| bash`. But now there is nothing stopping you from putting sudo in that bash script and expecting with a high probability that NOPASSWD: is also there ;)

klyrs on May 24, 2024 [–]

Indeed, if you preface the curl | bash with sudo apt install, there's no difference!

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