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What does this cryptic Bash command mean?

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Mar 15, 20266494 views

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I was reading Ubuntu Forum's warning about malicious commands and found this interesting gem: WARNING: The above code will crash your machine unless you have strict proc limits in place (which you probably don't) prompting a hard restart. Consider this code similar to running . But what does that m…

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It's, as you said, a forkbomb. What it does is define a function, then call it. The function is called . Let's name it so we can better see what's going on: As you can see, and probably guess from your programming experience, the first part is the f…

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