Removed slash before curl command

[Gadgetoid]

In bash this is, for better or worse, intentional since it prevents any alias intercepting the "curl" command and breaking/changing it. Observe:

$ curl
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
$ alias curl="echo \"Oh no\""
$ curl
On no
$ \curl
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
$ unalias curl

It breaks in Fish, and I'm sure, other alternate shells though and I'm not sure it provides any real tangible benefit to users of Bash.

[neauoire]

Ah! Good to know, I had no clue, it's the first time I stumble upon this, and as the other README.md files for the other hats did not include this, I thought it might have been accidental. Thanks :)

[lurch]

How likely is it that curl gets aliased to something else, and how likely is it that the "aliased curl" won't do what you expect it to?

[Gadgetoid]

I can't say I've got a good answer for that!

[lurch]

On the same topic of consistency... the unicorn-hat repo uses

\curl -sS https://get.pimoroni.com/unicornhat | bash

but the unicorn-hat-hd repo uses

curl https://get.pimoroni.com/unicornhathd | bash

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

(I think most readers, myself included, would assume that \curl is a typo and might 'auto-correct' it to just curl when typing it in?)

P.S. Hello Phil! :slightly_smiling_face: :wave:

[Gadgetoid]

I would be inclined to agree with the 'auto-correct' hypotheses. We should canonicalise on no-slash.

P.S. Hiiii! Long time no see!