What are some brilliant/crazy uses of the Bash commands?
:() { : | :}; : I don't take responsibility for what happens if you run that.
Ah, I forgot a character! Lol!
what does each character do?
alright I will type it in cygwin
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!
Lol. It prevents your ability to start new processes.
I like this talk. DDoS! Its just sad i dont know linux :(
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 ;)
@farmdawgnation do you know how to DDoS attack?
Yes, but as I have no desire to get arrested by the FBI, I'm not going to do one for you. :P
haha ok, can you *just* teach me how to do it, just for educational purposes lol
I think a good DDoS requires something on the scale of like a botnet or something.
@agdgdgdgwngo Were you able to execute the forkbomb in ideone? Ideone is down atm :P
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