On Sat Sep 28 2013 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> on a GNU system, coreutils provides `true` and `false` as well as man & info
> pages. i don't think having bash duplicate things would be useful in any way.
The "NOTE" issued by
$ /bin/true --help
was one reason for me I looked into this. I assume
On Fri Sep 27 2013 Chris Down wrote:
> Well, they're directly part of the POSIX spec. I'm not sure there's a
> need to reiterate absolutely everything that is already required by
> POSIX.
Well, the question is whether the info manual should provide a
self-contained documentation or whether it shou
On Fri Sep 27 2013 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> $ help true
> true: true
> Return a successful result.
>
> Exit Status:
> Always succeeds.
> $ help false
> false: false
> Return an unsuccessful result.
>
> Exit Status:
> Always fails.
Thanks, I did not know that.
Yet I
I guess there is not too much one can say about the bash built-ins
`true' and `false'. Nonetheless, I suggest that the info pages
should list these built-ins individually like other built-ins.
Currently, the only hint on their existence is buried in the info
node on Shell Builtin Commands saying t
