that is exaxtly what it does ;) if you don't feel comfortable with curl | sh , you can download clickhouse binary from the repo here https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/releases

;)

Changing the content from an html page to a shell script based on user-agent is a pretty bad abuse of HTTP. Why not at least require `-H 'Accept: text/x-shellscript'`? Or be more basic and give the script its own URL

Based on what reasoning? (Honestly curious)

If I want to download your homepage with curl to read offline, I get a script? If I use a tool you don't know you get the installer, I execute HTML?

If I run curl on Windows, do I get this script? A PowerShell version?

Why not make it https://clickhouse.com/linux-installer?

These are totally legit concerns, while the behaviour of the site has been around for quite sometimes and many ClickHouse installation script may have them so we will keep it for backward compatibility, we will add the usual install.sh url later and start sharing them more often.

(Pull request is in ... it should be deployed on Monday and you can use https://clickhouse.com/install.sh ). Love the feedbacks, please keep them coming!

Because someone may want to preview the script in browser.

Because someone may not have curl and use another tool your server doesn't know.

To what Resourse does this URL (universal Resourse locator) refer? A web page or a script?