TRUE(1) User Commands TRUE(1) 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 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) true invocation' GNU coreutils 9.11 April 2026 TRUE(1)