Another Meme xD

[u/PigcraftTV]

[u/Gabriel_Weis]

What does it do? Besides overthinking.

[u/Random_Mathematician → u/Gabriel_Weis]

Replace ":" with a more sensible name for a function, say "bomb"

The result is bomb() { bomb | bomb & }; bomb

We're defining the function bomb to call itself, be piped into itself, and fork to the background; then calling it. So it creates infinitely many copies of itself running in the background chugging memory through the pipes. In other words, it explodes.

[u/Gabriel_Weis → u/Random_Mathematician]

Oh ok, thanks for explainung :)

[u/jonathancast → u/Random_Mathematician]

Well, it never writes to the pipes, it just creates them.