PROLOG

This manual page is part of Cross-Unix Documentation which is an attempt to provide documentation of similarities and (noteworthy) differencies between Unix-like systems. To be used as an addition to the POSIX standard.

NAME

true — should always returns true

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”) defines true as a command that does not uses standard outputs or input, yet the GNU coreutils implementation of true doesn't ignore --help and --version which could lead to bugs or unexpected behaviour. Such as:

$ /bin/true --help > /dev/full
/bin/true: write error: No space left on device
$ echo $?
1

SOURCE

GNU coreutils 8.30

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+c-u-d@hacktivis.me>