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You'd be surprised how many people fit in the venn overlap of technical enough to be doing stuff in unix shell yet willing to follow instructions from a website they googled 30 seconds earlier that tells them to paste a command that downloads a bash script and immediately executes it. Which itself is a surprisingly common suggestion from many how to blog posts and software help pages.


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