Registered by Eric Hammond

Download and run a program

The "runurl" program downloads the contents of a specified URL and runs the resulting file passing in the remaining arguments.

Though there could be many uses and abuses of this basic tool, the main reason for its creation was to simplify the writing of user-data startup scripts in Amazon EC2 instances. See also:

  http://alestic.com/2009/08/runurl
  http://alestic.com/2009/06/ec2-user-data-scripts

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Maintainer:
Alestic
Driver:
Eric Hammond
Licence:
Apache Licence

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