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I have no idea what this does, I will not try it to find out

Fork bomb

fork bomb

Did someone invite Ritchie over for Christmas dinner?

No? The Bear? Anybody...?

Define a function called : which runs itself and creates another fork of itself as a background job :&. After the function definition call the function (final :).

It's easier to understand once you realize that : is a valid identifier. It is a simple mildly obfuscated fork bomb.

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