FALSE(1)

🎀 FALSE(1) — straight from the General Commands Manual, bestie ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

false — returns false, an unsuccessful exit status. Periodt.

It immediately returns with exit status 1. When you invoke it with one of the recognized options, it’ll try to write the help or version text. Any IO error during that operation gets diagnosed, but the program will also return 1. So yeah — iconic commitment to the bit 💅.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

false [--help] [--version]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so it literally returns false — an unsuccessful exit status. That’s the whole main character moment.

It immediately returns with exit status 1. When invoked with one of the recognized options, it’ll try to write the help or version text. Any IO error during this operation is diagnosed, yet the program will also return 1. No cap, it stays committed 😭.

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• --help — prints help information 💬
• --version — prints version information 🌈

👑 VERSION 👑

This one’s rocking v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 ⭐

xoxo, source/version v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-17 💜