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Executing a remote shell script with prompts using cURL works on bash but not on zsh – Ubuntu

This command works perfectly fine when executed on bash.

sh < (curl -sSL https://myurl.com/install.sh)

It’s an install script with some prompts that require y or n answers. Finally it installs a couple of programs, creates a directory, downloads some file and runs some nodejs program.

However, when running on zsh on Ubuntu it spits out:

zsh: number expected

What would be the correct syntax to run this script on zsh, be able to answer the questions inside the script and let it do its thing?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    As pointed out by @shellter and @zaidhaan-hussain, the problem was my wrong syntax.

    The code should be

    sh <(curl -sSL https://myurl.com/install.sh)

    without space between the < and (. That's the correct syntax for process substitution.


  2. 0

    Did you try to do:

    $ bash < (curl -sSL https://myurl.com/install.sh)
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