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

machid(1), sh(1). 

DIAGNOSTICS

True has exit status zero, false nonzero. 

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