true

 

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 User Commands                                             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 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  attri-
      butes:
 
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     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      sh(1), attributes(5)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8            Last change: 1 Feb 1995                    1
 
 
 

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