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    You should note that this configuration is highly dangerous. Sooner or later you're going to leak some confidential commands in a publicly exposed archive or repository. On a multiuser machine, as soon as you change into another user's directory and run a few commands there, they can modify your files and probably gain a backdoor to your account. And other users, or people whose archives you download, can easily trick you into running commands by injecting them into your shell history. Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 23:15
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    Great, I didn't think about that, thanks very much. Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 13:24
  • See my answer unix.stackexchange.com/a/794892 which hopefully addresses some of the concerns raised by @Gilles'SO-stopbeingevil' Commented May 14 at 14:38