[sclug] Tshirt - destruction of windows

[David Given]

On Thursday 21 April 2005 17:55, Tim Sutton wrote:
[...]
> I am hoping to do it in about 8 lines of rampant shell violence on the
> windows partition... If anyone has any previous experience in psychotic
> behaviour using a unix shell and would like to assist me I would be most
> grateful...

cp /mnt/registry.dat /tmp/muhahaha
(head -c `head -c 2 /dev/random | od -t u2 | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | head -1` && dd 
bs=1 count=1 conv=ebcdic && cat) < /tmp/muhahaha > /mnt/registry.dat

Not terribly exciting --- it converts a random byte somewhere in the registry 
into EBCDIC --- but it should do the job. It even uses real entropy, on most 
Linux systems.

(Is there a standard Unix tool that will modify a file in place? That would be 
a much better solution. And is the Windows registry actually at 
C:/registry.dat? I forget.)

-- 
+- David Given --McQ-+ 
|  dg at cowlark.com    | "Those that repeat truisms, are also forced to
| (dg at tao-group.com) | repeat them." --- Anonymous from Slashdot
+- www.cowlark.com --+