Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Is it a joke or a command?
Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Is it a joke or a command? Post 303034649 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 1st of May 2019 10:51:06 PM
Old 05-01-2019
Hi, this is one of the most well known "fork bombs". The use of ":" as a function name will work in bash or zsh, but not in most other shells. It is an unlimited recursive function that keeps calling itself and spawning new processes until your computer runs out of resources.

Never run that, or your computer will come to a crawl and it will need to be rebooted if there are no provisions to limit your user processes.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-02-2019 at 01:03 AM..
These 7 Users Gave Thanks to Scrutinizer For This Post:
 

We Also Found This Discussion For You

1. What is on Your Mind?

Post Your Favorite Joke! Laugh a Little!

Let's have a few laughs! Post your favorite joke! (no racist / racism jokes, please post in good taste, thanks!) (65 Replies)
Discussion started by: Neo
65 Replies
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)

NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL] DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file. Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect. OPTIONS
-check Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default. -add Adds the surfraw config code. -remove Removes the surfraw config code -sys Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root. -shell=SHELL Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable. Currently supported shells are: sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es. -all Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells -help Gives a usage message RETURN VALUE
-check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error. All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error. ENVIRONMENT
SHELL Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given. HOME Used to find users config files. ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file. ZDOTDIR Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME. SEE ALSO
surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1) AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:49 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy