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TRUE(1)                     General Commands Manual                    TRUE(1)



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
       sh(1)

DIAGNOSTICS
       True has exit status zero, false nonzero.

BUGS
       For most purposes, true is a slow equivalent for the shell builtin com‐
       mand `:'.



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