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User Commandstrue(1)


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:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

SEE ALSO

 

sh(1), attributes(5)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 1 Feb 1995

 
      
      
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