NAME

true, false − provide truth values

SYNOPSIS

true

false

AVAILABILITY

SUNWcsu

DESCRIPTION

true does nothing, successfully.  false does nothing, unsuccessfully.  They are typically used in a shell script sh as:

while true
do

command

done

SEE ALSO

sh(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

true has exit status zero. 

false has non-zero exit status. 

Sun Microsystems  —  Last change: 14 Sep 1992