createinstallmedia for macOS Sierra is a fork bomb!

Apple have posted a set of download links for installers for older versions of macOS on their website here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

There’s a teeny-tiny problem with the macOS Sierra installer though: running the createinstallmedia command as suggested ends up with an infinite loop of createinstallmedia spawning new copies of itself, until the computer’s resources are exhausted (a fork bomb)!

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