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sh(1)

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(1) such as:

while true
do

command

done

SEE ALSO

sh(1). 

DIAGNOSTICS

true has exit status zero, false nonzero. 

\*U  —  Version 1.0

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