C one-liners
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
is the runtime linker/loader for ELF binaries on Linux.
=(cmd) is a zsh trick to take the output for the command "inside" it and save it to a temporary file.
echo -e 'blah' | gcc -x c -o /dev/stdout -
pipes the C source to gcc. -x c tells gcc that it's compiling C (which is required if it's reading from a pipe). -o /dev/stdout - tells it to write the binary to standard output and read the source from standard input.
because of the the =() thing, the compiled output is stashed in a tempfile, which the loader then runs and executes, and the shell tosses the tempfile away immediately after running it.
c one liners
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echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\nint main(){printf(\"c on liners\");}" | gcc -x c -o /dev/stdout - | /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /dev/stdinwould work but it doesn't.