true 1 user commands nosh truereturn success status true args Most shells have a built-in true command. See the manual for each individual shell for its built-in command. This command is more commonly used with exec1 and nosh1. true is a utility that simply exits with a zero exit status in normal use. It ignores args but supports the standard --help and --usage options. true will exit with a non-zero exit status if an error occurs during argument parsing. Some other external implementations of true are shell scripts that wrap a shell's built-in true command. This is a security problem, as significant care must be taken to ensure that the shell correctly deals with people who symbolically link the script to other names (such as -i), who supply extra script arguments, and who set environment variables such as IFS. This true is not a shell script. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard