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Matthew T Hoare's avatar

The Linux download command should pipe curl to bash, not sh. Debian's /bin/sh is linked to dash and the install script uses bashisms.

It does have a check included that will tell the user to specify bash but specifying bash in your instructions would save people the trouble.

Santhosh Eapen's avatar

Good catch, and you're right. /bin/sh on Debian and Ubuntu points to dash, and if the install script leans on bash-specific syntax, that's exactly the kind of thing that trips people up - even with the built-in check nudging them toward bash afterward. Piping straight to bash side steps that extra round trip. I'll update the command in the article. Thanks for flagging it.