TRUE(1) TRUE(1)
NAME
true, false - provide truth values
SYNOPSIS
true
false
DESCRIPTION
True does nothing, successfully. False does nothing, unsuc-
cessfully. They are typically used in input to sh(1) such
as:
while true
do
command
done
SEE ALSO
sh(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
True has exit status zero, false nonzero.
BUGS
For most purposes, true is a slow equivalent for the shell
builtin command `:'.