true(1)                    (Essential Utilities)                    true(1)


   NAME
         true, false - provide truth values

   SYNOPSIS
         true

         false

   DESCRIPTION
         true does nothing, successfully.  false does nothing, unsuccessfully.
         They are typically used in input to sh such as:

               while true
               do
                     command
               done

   SEE ALSO
         sh(1).

   DIAGNOSTICS
         true has exit status zero, false nonzero.































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