FALSE(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 6 versions
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💅 FALSE — the manual page, bestie edition 💅

okay so this is false from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? iconic behaviour. it does one thing. it does it perfectly. it says no. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

false — Returns false, an unsuccessful exit status.

Immediately returns with the exit status 1. When invoked with one of the recognized options it will try to write the help or version text. Any IO error during this operation is diagnosed, yet the program will also return 1.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

false [--help] [--version]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Returns false, an unsuccessful exit status.

Immediately returns with the exit status 1. When invoked with one of the recognized options it will try to write the help or version text. Any IO error during this operation is diagnosed, yet the program will also return 1.

like. no thoughts. no computation. no notes. just <red>1</red> and she's gone. main character energy but make it ✨failure✨. the way that this little icon refuses to succeed is genuinely so valid of her 💀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --help — Print help information 💖
  • --version — Print version information ✨

that's it. that's the whole menu. two options and a dream. periodt.

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Return a non-zero exit code:

false

Make a command always exit with 1:

command && false
The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.

lowkey obsessed with how the whole page is just "she returns 1, that's the gig" 💅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

ngl bestie there's technically no SEE ALSO section in this one 🥲 not every page gets one and that's okay. we love her anyway.

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this is FALSE(1) from the uutils coreutils fam, dated 2026-09-25, and no cap: the queen of failing on purpose said goodbye. slay 💖✨🎀🦋🌸🫶

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