You are correct, left hand is a fork bomb. Specifically, it creates and then runs a function named “:”. What this function does is pipe its output into itself while running in a background process, which instantly spawns infinite copies of itself. Technically I believe the : character could be any character as its just a name. The creator just picked a colon for aesthetics.
You are correct, left hand is a fork bomb. Specifically, it creates and then runs a function named “:”. What this function does is pipe its output into itself while running in a background process, which instantly spawns infinite copies of itself. Technically I believe the : character could be any character as its just a name. The creator just picked a colon for aesthetics.
I always just kind of glazed over looking at that and just know “it’s a fork bomb” and basically what it does
With your explanation, I can now actually understand all the parts and how they work, it actually makes sense
Now I get why it does what it does and how it works. I never thought that the colon was the variable name but it makes so much sense!