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    You could say I am a bit of a copy/paste expert.. (i.imgflip.com)
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    what does it do?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lemme know if you find out please, I forgot the name of the reminder bot on Lemmy haha

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    The curl command pulls data from a URL into your terminal. So you can actually go to cheat.sh in a web browser to see what the output would be (also wouldn't necessarily recommend doing this vs. blindly pasting commands, but in this case, perfectly safe!). It looks like a little Unix command helper tool.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Why wouldn't you recommend this? As a novice, it seems to me like a safe way to check out what you're actually pulling in through curl

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    Quick google shows it's (likely) an aggregate cheat sheet for numerous resources which can be accessed via curl cheat.sh/ or curl cht.sh

    (I haven't confirmed this, verify the safety of all commands and code that you run on your system before you run it, don't inherently trust someone else)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Do it a few times and it gives your computer massive biceps