TRUE(1)

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version 9.12 · 45 versions
, in arch rolling

💖 TRUE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the iconic, the legendary, the one and only true — a User Command, and honestly? a whole mood. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

true — do nothing, successfully 🫶

like. literally nothing. and it slays at it.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

true [ignored command line arguments]
true OPTION

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Exit with a status code indicating success. that's it. that's the whole job. no notes. 👑

  • --help — display this help and exit 🎀
  • --version — output version information and exit 🌈
⚠️ bestie, heads up: your shell may have its own version of true, which usually supersedes the version described here. so if things look different, it's not you, it's the shell. please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. iykyk 💀

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Written by Jim Meyering. absolute main character energy, we love him for this. 🫶

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not in my true, surely. but if so:

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. fr fr, none, zero, nada. 😤

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was GNU coreutils 9.12, dated September 2026, and it's giving TRUE(1) with immaculate vibes only. go forth and exit zero. ✨🎀💖

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