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true 1 "1 Feb 1995" "SunOS 5.11" "User Commands"
NAME
true, false - provide truth values
SYNOPSIS

true 

false 
DESCRIPTION

The true utility does nothing, successfully. The false utility 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
Interface StabilityStandard
SEE ALSO

sh(1), attributes(5), standards(5)