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    [–] stjobe@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    Heh, haven't seen the bash forkbomb in close to two decades... Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)

    [–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    You know how I know I've gotten better at using linux?

    I saw the command and read it and figured out what it was although I've never been exposed to a fork bomb before in my life.

    I was like okay, this is an empty function that calls itself and then pipes itself back into itself? What the hell is going on?

    I will say that whoever invented this is definitely getting fucked by roko's basilisk, though. The minute they thought of this it was too late for them.

    [–] barsoap@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    99.999% of that function's effectiveness is that unix shell, being the ancient dinosaur it is, not just allows : as a function name but also uses the exact same declaration syntax for symbol and alphanumeric functions:

    foo(){ foo | foo& }; foo

    is way more obvious.

    EDIT: Yeah I give up I'm not going to try to escape that &