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true (1g)

Name

true - do nothing, successfully

Synopsis

true [ignored command line arguments]
true OPTION

Description




User Commands                                             TRUE(1)



NAME
     true - do nothing, successfully

SYNOPSIS
     true [ignored command line arguments]
     true OPTION

DESCRIPTION
     Exit with a status code indicating success.

     --help
          display this help and exit

     --version
          output version information and exit

     NOTE:  your  shell  may  have its own version of true, 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 true 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  true  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                                             TRUE(1)



     +---------------+--------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
     +---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for true is maintained as  a  Texinfo
     manual.    If  the  info  and  true  programs  are  properly
     installed at your site, the command

          info coreutils 'true 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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