false - Man Page
do nothing, unsuccessfully
Examples (TL;DR)
- Return a non-zero exit code:
false
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
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright
Copyright © 2024 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.
See Also
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/false>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) false invocation'