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FALSE(1L) manual page

Name

false - do nothing, unsuccessfully

Synopsis

false
false {--help,--version}

Description

This manual page documents the GNU version of false (and probably every other version, as well). false does nothing except return an exit status of 1, meaning ``failure''. It can be used as a place holder in shell scripts where an unsuccessful command is needed.

Options

When GNU false is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:
--help
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
--version
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.


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