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[-] Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Define a function called : which runs itself and creates another fork of itself as a background job :&. After the function definition call the function (final :).

It's easier to understand once you realize that : is a valid identifier. It is a simple mildly obfuscated fork bomb.

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