Manual page for FALSE(1L)
false - do nothing, unsuccessfully
SYNOPSIS
false
false
{--help,--version}
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
false
(and probably every other version, as well).
false
does nothing except return an exit status of 1, meaning ``failure''.
It can be used as a place holder in shell scripts where an
unsuccessful command is needed.
OPTIONS
When GNU
false
is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:
- --help
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- --version
-
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
