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Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts

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Don't just run it — vet it.

Stop blindly piping to bash. vet lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute.

The Problem

We've all seen this pattern for installing software:

curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | bash

This is dangerous. The script could be malicious, the server could be compromised, or a transient network error could result in executing a partial script.

The Solution

vet wraps this process in a secure, interactive workflow:

Fetch: It downloads the remote script to a temporary location.

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