FALSE(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

💅 FALSE(1) — like, the manual page, bestie

okay so real talk, this is false(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation set, and yes she's a whole icon for doing the absolute least and doing it flawlessly. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

false — exits unsuccesfully

(and yes, that IS how it's spelled up there, we're keeping it, it's part of her charm 💀)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

false

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama. main character energy fr fr 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

false exits unsuccesfully.

and honestly? that's the entire job description. she shows up, she exits unsuccesfully, she leaves. no notes. periodt ✨

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

the working of false is not influenced by any environment variables.

like, at all. zero. none. you can set every variable your little heart desires — PATH, HOME, whatever chaos you're brewing — and false is gonna be completely unbothered. she does not read the group chat. she does not care. 🧚

🍓 BUGS 🍓

false has no known bugs.

not one. not a single one. she is perfect and she knows it 👑 ngl that's kind of iconic of her.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

the Perl implementation of false was written by Abigail, perlpowertools@abigail.be.

give her her flowers 💐 she really said "I'm gonna write the simplest program ever" and then did it flawlessly.

this program is copyright by Abigail 1999.

this program is free and open software. you may use, modify, distribute and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others to do the same.

so like, go off, remix her, sell her, whatever — just don't be that person who locks the door behind them. we don't do that here 🙈

💀 lowkey reminder: this whole page is about a program whose only feature is failing. and somehow she ate. no cap.

k that's the tea ☕ this was false(1), perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15 — mwah, love u, bye bestie 💖🦋

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