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Manual page for TRUE(1)

true, false - provide truth values

SYNOPSIS

true

false

DESCRIPTION

True and false are usually used in a Bourne shell script. They test for the appropriate status "true" or "false" before running (or failing to run) a list of commands.

EXAMPLE

     while true 
     do
          command list 
     done

SEE ALSO

csh(1), sh(1), false(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

True has exit status zero.

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