Valentines Day in BASH

Valentines Day in BASH(valentines.digitalocean.com)

10 points by srajbr 12 years ago | 7 comments

kylek 12 years ago |

Can we please not tell people to pipe things directly from curl to bash?

notacoward 12 years ago | |

Exactly. There's no way in hell anyone should ever do that, even (thanks to DNS hijacking etc.) if they thought the file was something they wrote themselves.

srajbr 12 years ago | |

people might have thought it to be malicious so i simple posted the link

quchen 12 years ago |

Don't we have a bit too much of a history with clicking/doing things on the internet with "love" in their names? Happy Friday by DigitalOcean, where trusting random people on the internets is company policy.

salgernon 12 years ago | |

Pipe it to more. That's just crap at the end after a lot of white space. What's sad about this is that it doesnt use curses and just reprints the entire terminal.

curl http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/valentin.vt

And related.

ryutin 12 years ago |

no love for my mac :-(

[Fri Feb 14 14:35:37] -bash:~$ curl -s valentines.digitalocean.com | bash

bash: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

bash: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">'

salgernon 12 years ago |

Why could't this just be a text file with curses escapes available via netcat? At least then it's limited only to known terminal exploits, rather than running whatever the hell it wants as you.