User Commands                                             true(1)

NAME
     true, false - provide truth values

SYNOPSIS
     true

     false

DESCRIPTION
     true does nothing, successfully. false does nothing,  unsuc-
     cessfully. 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  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

SEE ALSO
     sh(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.8            Last change: 1 Feb 1995                    1