Bug: the installation command is not working for non posix shells

[anki-code]

Hello! Thank you for atuin it's awesome!

Please fix the installation command on https://atuin.sh/ and in the repository:

bash <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://setup.atuin.sh)
# xonsh: SyntaxError
# fish: Invalid redirection target

This syntax is not working on non POSIX shells like xonsh.

The right way to do this is run bash -c command e.g. https://brew.sh/:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Thanks!

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[akinomyoga]

I suspect you have xonsh or fish installed with the name bash. If that is the case, I don't think that is a sane environment. All the Bash scripts with the shebang #!/usr/bin/env bash (which is the recent standard) are broken in such an environment. You may skip the processing of shebang by specifying -c, but I don't think that can be an essential solution.

[ellie]

I think it's more the issue that <(...blah) isn't supported in Fish and Xonsh. The install guide has a separate section for Fish

Just did a few tests and looks like

/bin/bash -c "$(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://setup.atuin.sh)"

does function the same way (wrt interactivity etc) on a few platforms

[akinomyoga]

Ah, OK. I now understand the issue. I'm sorry, but please forget about my comment above!

I'm not sure for Xonsh, but another solution is to use

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://setup.atuin.sh | bash

[ellie]

Hm, perhaps. I think /bin/bash -c is more likely to work on more systems/shells though, without relying on POSIX

In any case, I've updated atuin.sh! Thanks for the input everyone

[anki-code]

Thanks @ellie !

[arcuru]

Shouldn't it just be bash instead of /bin/bash? Bash doesn't necessarily have a required location, yes it's usually there but it's probably better to trust the users $PATH instead of hardcoding a location , that's why #!/usr/bin/env bash is the standard shebang instead of #!/bin/bash

Obviously this is not too important though, since any user can easily remove that.