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A secret Linux cat easter egg (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There is a secret easter egg where you can activate a virtual cat on a linux or a UNIX system. Though it is reported that it can hang your system in certain distros so it is best advised you save and close all your work and so on before attempting because if things go wrong, you may be forced to pull out the power plug.

To summon the cat, try the following command:

meow() { meow | meow & }; meow

If you see something like

[1] 583341
[1]+  Done                 meow|meow

Quickly up arrow and rerun the command untill you see no output. And after a few seconds the cat will appear on the screen that follows your mouse pointer. Very cute.

Update: This also works in Windows with GitBash

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is just a forkbomb that will overload your system.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

For anybody copy & pasting code from lemmy a probably harmless system freeze should be a healthy lesson, tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Lemmy has a cool easter egg too, all you have to do is post pictures of the front and back on your moms credit card!