false - Man Page

do nothing, unsuccessfully

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

false [ignored command line arguments]
false OPTION

Description

Exit with a status code indicating failure.

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Your shell may have its own version of false, which usually supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.

Author

Written by Jim Meyering.

Reporting Bugs

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See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/false>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) false invocation'

Info

November 2024 GNU coreutils 9.5