FALSE

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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NAME

false - do nothing, unsuccessfully  

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

NOTE: 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

Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report false translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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

The full documentation for false is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and false programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'false invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.


 

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