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true(1)				 User Commands			       true(1)

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 TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │SUNWcsu			   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Interface Stability	     │Standard			   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

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

SunOS 5.10			  1 Feb 1995			       true(1)
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