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Is that a shell script? Doesn’t seem to do anything on my linux server.


It's a fork bomb in shell script. It's more human readable like this:

  bomb() { 
    bomb | bomb &
  }; bomb
Apparently this trick doesn't work nowadays due to cgroups:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/469950/why-cant-i-c...


Just kidding :)

First thing you learn in unix is to not paste gibberish in terminal.




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