.TH TRUE 1 
.SH NAME
true, false \- provide truth values
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B true
.PP
.B false
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I true
does nothing, successfully.
.I false
does nothing, unsuccessfully.
They are typically used in input to
.IR  sh (1)
such as:
.PP
	while true
.br
	do
.br
		command
.br
	done
.SH "SEE ALSO"
sh(1)
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.I true
has exit status zero,
.I false
nonzero.
.SH BUGS
For most purposes,
.I true
is a slow equivalent for the shell builtin command
.RB ` : '.