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[–] 0uterzenith@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what does it do?

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] MellowSnow@lemmy.world 6 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.

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 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

[–] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 5 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)

[–] FooSolo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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