5 Bash Commands That Make A Computer Completely Unusable (Proceed With Caution!)

These are 5 ways that can make a computer a mere dumpster (temporarily or permanently) and one should never type these scripts in a Bash terminal.

1. Consuming Disk Space With Random Data

This script will quickly fill up the storage space on a computer with random data.

while true; do
    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/randomfile bs=10M count=100 oflag=direct
done

The breakdown of the script is given below:

In the first step, an infinite while loop is started
dd: This is the disk/data duplicator command that allows us to copy raw data from one source to another
if specifies the input file for the dd command. In our case, the input file is /dev/urandom, a file which produces pseudo-random numbers in Unix-based systems.
of specifies the output file for the dd command. In our case, the random data is written to a file named randomfile in the /tmp directory.

5 Bash Commands That Make A Computer Completely Unusable (Proceed With Caution!)