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TRUE(1) 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.

display this help and exit
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.

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report true translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR

Written by Jim Meyering.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 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 redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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.

November 2020 GNU coreutils 8.22