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This is a Bash fork bomb, a malicious function definition that recursively calls itself:

:() — defines a function named : (yes, just a colon).

{ :|:& } — the function's body:

    :|: — pipes the output of the function into another call of itself, creating two processes each time.

    & — runs the call in the background, meaning it doesn’t wait for completion.

; — ends the function definition.

: — finally, this invokes the function once, starting the bomb.
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