NAME

true, false − provide truth values

SYNOPSIS

true

false

DESCRIPTION

True does nothing, successfully.  False does nothing, unsuccessfully.  These commands are typically used in input to sh(1) such as the following:

while true
do
command
done

SEE ALSO

sh(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

True has exit status zero, false nonzero. 

November 03, 1983  —  %W%%Q%%Y%