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## Name

true - do nothing, successfully

## Synopsis

true
true {--help,--version}

## Description

This manual page documents the GNU version of true (and probably every other version, as well). true does nothing except return an exit status of 0, meaning ``success''. It can be used as a place holder in shell scripts where a successful command is needed, although the shell built-in command `:' (colon) does the same thing faster.

### Options

When GNU true is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:

--help
  Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
--version
  Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.

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