NAME

false − do nothing, unsuccessfully

SYNOPSIS

false
false {−−help,−−version}

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of false (and probably every other version, as well).  false does nothing except return an exit status of 1, meaning “failure”.  It can be used as a place holder in shell scripts where an unsuccessful command is needed. 

OPTIONS

When GNU false is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:

−−help
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

−−version
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.