linux man page for false

FALSE(1)							   User Commands							  FALSE(1)

NAME
       false - do nothing, unsuccessfully

SYNOPSIS
       false [ignored command line arguments]
       false OPTION

DESCRIPTION
       Exit with a status code indicating failure.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       NOTE: your shell may have its own version of false, which usually supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's doc-
       umentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR
       Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report false translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2010 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 false is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and false programs are properly installed  at  your  site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'false invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							  FALSE(1)