Timeline for Source a script from a URL in bash

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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:45	history	edited	CommunityBot		replaced http://apple.stackexchange.com/ with https://apple.stackexchange.com/
Jan 29, 2013 at 11:14	history	edited	kopischke	CC BY-SA 3.0	linked to test results in comments
Jan 28, 2013 at 21:12	comment	added	kopischke		… and for completeness’ sake, I’ll add that the issue is demonstrably in the source from process substitution part. Using the (admittedly contrived) `source <(echo 'TESTVAR="test value"')` fails too, while `cat`ing the same process substitution works, as does sourcing the output of that `cat` call (see what I did there?).
Jan 28, 2013 at 21:09	history	edited	kopischke	CC BY-SA 3.0	Minor rephrasing.
Jan 28, 2013 at 21:03	history	edited	kopischke	CC BY-SA 3.0	Minor rephrasing.
Jan 28, 2013 at 21:02	comment	added	kopischke		… or maybe different `bash` versions’ `source` builtin react differently to being passed a file descriptor through process substitution (AFAIK Ubuntu has been using `bash` 4 since 2010). Rephrased my answer to narrow down the specifics.
Jan 28, 2013 at 20:54	history	edited	kopischke	CC BY-SA 3.0	Tried to clarify the different apparent failure reasons for the three one-liners indicated.
Jan 28, 2013 at 20:34	comment	added	kopischke		I strongly doubt that accepted answer has actually been tested. On my OS X box, `cat <(curl http://url.tld/file.sh)` outputs file contents, `cp <(curl http://url.tld/file.sh) /new/dest` copies the file, and `source <(curl http://url.tld/file.sh)` fails.
Jan 28, 2013 at 19:36	comment	added	rich		I doubt it's that process substitution doesn't work given the accepted answer here: superuser.com/questions/255260/bash-source-from-url
Jan 28, 2013 at 9:56	history	edited	kopischke	CC BY-SA 3.0	Amended text in reaction to comment by @patrix
Jan 28, 2013 at 9:52	comment	added	kopischke		@patrix Yeah, that is difficult to diagnose without knowing what the sourced file is meant to do. Judging from the comment threads, it is meant to setup aliases and completion functions, which won’t carry over from a subshell, of course. Amended my wording to reflect that.
Jan 28, 2013 at 9:19	comment	added	nohillside♦		Well, it works ok for me (at least the second one) so I suspect something else being amiss for the asker.
Jan 28, 2013 at 8:26	history	answered	kopischke	CC BY-SA 3.0