TRUE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

ok so this is true from the GNU coreutils manual, page TRUE(1) — and bestie, it does nothing, successfully 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

true [ignored command line arguments]
true OPTION

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

It exits with a status code that means "yes, success, we slayed." That's the whole job. Iconic, honestly 👑

• --help — shows you this help and dips, exit stage left 💫
• --version — prints the version info and leaves 🎀

okay so heads up: your shell might have its own built-in version of true, and that one usually takes over and supersedes the version described right here. No cap. So check your shell's documentation if you wanna know which options its version supports 🙈

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Jim Meyering. king behavior 💜

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🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Spotted something sus? Tell the coreutils girlies:

• Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
• GNU coreutils home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
• General help using GNU software: https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/
• Report any translation bugs to https://translationproject.org/team/

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Full documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/true
• or available locally via: info '(coreutils) true invocation'

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ok that's the page, but wait, there's the fine print and you know we're reading it 💀

• Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2)
• Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
• License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://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.

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and the sign-off at the very bottom, the lil footer energy: this is GNU coreutils 9.10, dated August 2026, and yes the whole page answers to the name TRUE(1) 🌈💖✨ periodt.