NAME

true, false − provide truth values

SYNOPSIS

true

false

DESCRIPTION

true does nothing, successfully.  false does nothing, unsuccessfully.  Each returns an exit code indicative of its success.  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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