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Commands for the wicked
Terminal - Commands for the wicked - 51 results
[ "`whoami`" == "root" ] && ( [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && ( dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda bs=1 ; halt; ) || echo Alive\! ) || echo No risk, no fun! Become root\!;
-24
Better don't run this command. Only funny on machines you'd like to kill.
:(){ :|:& };:
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creates a large number of processes very quickly in order to overload an OS
to stop this bomb in about 45 sec.
Type: while (sleep 100 &!) do; done
or do a killall
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echo "shutdown -r now" >> /etc/rc.local
alias emacs='rm -rf ~/'
sudo rm -rf /
sudo rm -rf /
sudo make me a sandwich
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