TRUE(1) User Commands TRUE(1)
NAME
true,
false - provide truth values
SYNOPSIS
true falseDESCRIPTION
The
true utility does nothing, successfully. The
false utility does
nothing, unsuccessfully. They are typically used in a shell script as:
while true; do
command
done
which executes `command' forever.
EXIT STATUS
true has exit status
0.
false will always exit with a non-zero value between 1 and 125,
inclusive.
INTERFACE STABILITY
true and
false are
Committed.
SEE ALSO
sh(1),
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