Contexts of a tiny script that you should never run:
cp $0 $$ # Make a copy of yourself sh $$ & # Run the copy in the background sh $0 & # Rerun a new version of yourself in the background
This will probably take over your server or at least use up all of the filesystem pointers in its filesytem. In a minute or so you would have thousands of these running and doubling each generation.
This does demonstrate an interesting version of ‘the game of life’. If the copy (cp) could be a little less reliable and the whole thing could work in a few messed up ways, this could actually evolve into some other different tiny script.
Self-reference is always fun times.
