FALSE(1) User Commands FALSE(1) 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 Your shell may have its own version of false, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for de- tails about the options it supports. AUTHOR Written by Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: Report any translation bugs to COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . 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 or available locally via: info '(coreutils) false invocation' GNU coreutils 9.11 April 2026 FALSE(1)