Hey hunters! 👋 I'm Artem, the maker of vet, and I'm incredibly excited to share it with you all today. Like many of you, I practically live in my terminal. And for years, I've had a love-hate relationship with the curl | bash pattern. It's the peak of convenience for installing developer tools, but every time I run it, a small part of me winces. We're all one typo, one compromised server, or one malicious script away from a very bad day. Manually downloading, reading, and then running the script is the "right" way, but let's be honest—it's a hassle, so most of us don't do it. That's why I built vet. vet is a simple, security-first CLI tool that makes the safe way the easy way. Instead of piping to bash, you pipe it (conceptually) to vet: 💻 ```bash vet https://example.com/install.sh ``` It then wraps the entire process in a safety net: - Review First: It always shows you the full script in your pager before anything runs. - Automatic Diffing: vet remembers the last time you ran a script from a URL. If the script has changed—even by a single character—it will automatically show you a diff. You can see exactly what's new before you approve an update. - Optional Linting: If you have shellcheck installed, vet will automatically run it on the script to catch common errors or suspicious code patterns for you. - Final Confirmation: Nothing runs without your explicit yes. What makes it unique? While you can always do this manually, vet automates the entire best-practice workflow into a single, fast command. The automatic diffing against a trusted, cached version is something I haven't seen in other tools and is the core reason I built it. It answers the crucial question: "I've run this before, but is it still safe today?" Even our installer at getvet.sh is a teaching moment—it works via curl | sh, but the landing page encourages you to inspect the source first, embodying the project's entire philosophy. vet is open source, written as a single, robust bash script, and is ready for you to use. I'm here all day to answer any questions and would love to hear your feedback. Is this a tool you'd add to your workflow? What features would make it even better? Thanks for checking it out

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The safety net for curl | bash

The safety net for curl | bash