~ $ /bin/true --help
Usage: /bin/true [ignored command line arguments]
or: /bin/true OPTION
Exit with a status code indicating success.
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of true, which usually supersedes
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/true>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) true invocation'
I honestly don’t know what I prefer more, the overengineered GNU true, or the true that shipped with some older system that was literally just an empty file with the executable bit set.
If you ever feel useless, don’t forget that both
trueandfalsehave manpages in Linux.They even have
--helpand--versionflags in case you need them.Huh, TIL
~ $ /bin/true --help Usage: /bin/true [ignored command line arguments] or: /bin/true OPTION Exit with a status code indicating success. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit NOTE: your shell may have its own version of true, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/true> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) true invocation'I honestly don’t know what I prefer more, the overengineered GNU
true, or thetruethat shipped with some older system that was literally just an empty file with the executable bit set.