What are some brilliant/crazy uses of the Bash commands?

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farmdawgnation · Answer

:() { : | :}; :

I don't take responsibility for what happens if you run that.

farmdawgnation · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forkbomb

farmdawgnation · Answer

Ah, I forgot a character! Lol!

anonymous · Answer

what does each character do?

anonymous · Answer

alright I will type it in cygwin

farmdawgnation · Answer

It defines a function named ":" that pipes all output from itself into a copy of itself, which causes it to fork rapidly and eat up the process table.

NOOOOO DON'T!

farmdawgnation · Answer

Lol. It prevents your ability to start new processes.

anonymous · Answer

http://ideone.com/C2aDo

anonymous · Answer

I like this talk. DDoS! Its just sad i dont know linux :(

farmdawgnation · Answer

Yeah, there's no actual output. And I screwed up the example. But done correctly, it locks up your computer until you hard reboot. Hey, you asked for crazy ;)

anonymous · Answer

@farmdawgnation do you know how to DDoS attack?

farmdawgnation · Answer

Yes, but as I have no desire to get arrested by the FBI, I'm not going to do one for you. :P

anonymous · Answer

haha ok, can you *just* teach me how to do it, just for educational purposes lol

anonymous · Answer

I think a good DDoS requires something on the scale of like a botnet or something.

anonymous · Answer

A very nice read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

anonymous · Answer

@agdgdgdgwngo Were you able to execute the forkbomb in ideone? Ideone is down atm :P