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I'm tempted to add a place holder for all the variations of this forkbomb, until I teach the parser about functions.

You'll be amazed how many people try this (or other 'malicious' commands), presumably thinking I'm executing the queries. ;)

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I tried this, but not because I believed that you would execute it, but because a very important use of such a tool would be to explain potentially dangerous commands and their implications.

I searched the classic sudo rm -rf /, too. Just to see if it would adequately explain it.

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