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[–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ok but actually what does this do?

[–] groet@feddit.de 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

its a lot more readable if you replace the : with any other function name

fork() {
     fork | fork &
};
fork

define a funktion called fork, which calls itself twice (call once, pipe ( "|" ) the result to the same function again which is run in a new thread in the background ( "&" )). Then call the newly defined function. The : is used to make it look more like emoji.