NAME¶

true - do nothing, successfully

SYNOPSIS¶

true [ignored command line arguments]
true OPTION

DESCRIPTION¶

Exit with a status code indicating success.

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Your shell may have its own version of true, 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 bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2025 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/true>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) true invocation'