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Fun read! My next bash exercise will be to try and understand some of these commands, quite a feat! greping the ps output would work with any program, right ? That was pretty cool. Killing it from emacs was def a good laugh !

They should add the script kiddie way: `sudo rm -rf /` ^^

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That might delete the executable but the process would still be running.

Yep, `ps | grep` is a common and useful idiom!

In fact "pkill init" or "kill 0" (each with sudo/root privileges executed) will most likely kill all processes and is some kind of process equivalent to delete all files ;-)

safe-rm voids that command ( https://launchpad.net/safe-rm )

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