Bashian Roulette

type this into your commandline.

[ $(($RANDOM%6)) -eq 0 ] && rm -rf ~


Of course this will with a 16.667% certainty delete everything in your home dir - consider yourself warned.

[Tyr_7BE]

Does anyone else get the image of two nerdy desperados sitting in a dark parent's basement, both drinking straight shots of tequila, staring each other down, taking turns at this?

Intense scene!

[BigFatJoe]

[quote author=Lovechild link=board=17;threadid=6703;start=0#62927 date=1048947441]
type this into your commandline.

[ $(($RANDOM%6)) -eq 0 ] && rm -rf ~

Of course this will with a 16.667% certainty delete everything in your home dir - consider yourself warned.
[/quote]

i propose something more entertaining.
Instead of rm -rf ~ maybe something like:
rm -rf [find | tail -n +$(($RANDOM%20)) | head -n 1]

Run this as root, and you have a 16.7% chance of removing some/all part of your system (change the second RANDOM option to your liing for more entertaining odds.)
: )

Actually $RANDOM%$RANDOM may work well...

[CP]

It took about 7 goes before it actually happened. Good thing that the only thing in my home dir was...

[coltrane]

so you removed your porn collection?

:P

[CP]

Kinda, but being in a networked flat, its on 2 other PC's, so no big loss.