sunos man page for false

Query: false

OS: sunos

Section: 1

Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar

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)
Related Man Pages
false(1) - osf1
true(1p) - suse
test(1) - minix
boolval(3) - php
stdbool.h(3head) - centos
Similar Topics in the Unix Linux Community
false use of sed???
Why is it always false?
Nagios is sending critical false alerts about current users
Help in Understanding awk if ( F ) syntax -
If echo statement return false