NAME

true, false − provide truth values

SYNOPSIS

true

false

DESCRIPTION

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

while true
do

command

done

which executes command forever. 

EXIT STATUS

true has exit status 0. 

false always will exit with a non-zero value. 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

SEE ALSO

sh(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.6  —  Last change: 1 Feb 1995