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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? fun scripts Post 302308178 by quirkasaurus on Friday 17th of April 2009 10:02:17 AM
Old 04-17-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ikon
This is an old one.

At a job interview this was a script I had to explain.

Code:
:(){ :|:& };:

Oh. Just reading it, I'd say this:

Looks like a function declaration with an invalid name, the colon NOP command.

Then it pipes the output of the NOP command to another NOP command
and sticks it in the background.

The {} delimit the function declaration.

The ; is the command separator.

And the final : is just a NOP again.
 

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Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Parent(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Parent(3pm)

NAME
Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Parent - Parent object used by the pipe plugin. SEE ALSO
This class inherits from: Child::Link::Parent Child::Link::IPC Child::Link::IPC::Pipe HISTORY
Most of this was part of Parrallel::Runner intended for use in the Fennec project. Fennec is being broken into multiple parts, this is one such part. FENNEC PROJECT
This module is part of the Fennec project. See Fennec for more details. Fennec is a project to develop an extendable and powerful testing framework. Together the tools that make up the Fennec framework provide a potent testing environment. The tools provided by Fennec are also useful on their own. Sometimes a tool created for Fennec is useful outside the greator framework. Such tools are turned into their own projects. This is one such project. Fennec - The core framework The primary Fennec project that ties them all together. AUTHORS
Chad Granum exodist7@gmail.com COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Chad Granum Child is free software; Standard perl licence. Child is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details. perl v5.10.1 2011-03-07 Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Parent(3pm)
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