false
(1g)
Name
false - do nothing, unsuccessfully
Synopsis
false [ignored command line arguments]
false OPTION
Description
User Commands FALSE(1)
NAME
false - do nothing, unsuccessfully
SYNOPSIS
false [ignored command line arguments]
false OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Exit with a status code indicating failure.
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of false, which
usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer
to your shell's documentation for details about the options
it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
utils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
elp/>
Report false translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redis-
tribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
by law.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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User Commands FALSE(1)
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for false is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and false programs are properly
installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'false invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/coreutils/.
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