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[โ€“] Bizarroland@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[โ€“] barsoap@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 &