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Most deadly commands on Unix/Linux !!
lets list the most deadly commands on Unix/Linux and what they do....

> sudo rm -rf /
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I will move this to the lounge since it's not really a scripting thread.

dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 of=/dev/mem
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Code:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<bootdisk>
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what does this code do(pasted in above by pludi) ?
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ls > /dev/sda
I never tried, btw
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It's a fork bomb, much like
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perl -e 'fork while true;'
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