true(1)


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 such as:
   while true
   do
   	command
   done

References

sh(1)

Diagnostics

true has exit status zero, false nonzero.
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