NAME

true, false — provide truth values

SYNOPSIS

true

false

The true utility does nothing, successfully. The false utility does nothing, unsuccessfully. They are typically used in a shell script as:

while true; do
	command
done

which executes ‘command’ forever.

true has exit status 0.

false will always exit with a non-zero value between 1 and 125, inclusive.

true and false are Committed.