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/usr/bin/true

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils.

From uutils 0.12.0-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running true --help (exit 0). permalink

Returns true, a successful exit status.

Immediately returns with the exit status 0, except when invoked with one of the recognized
options. In those cases it will try to write the help or version text. Any IO error during this
operation causes the program to return 1 instead.

Usage: true

Options:
      --help     Print help information
      --version  Print version information
Options (2)
OptionDescriptionSource
--helpPrint help informationhelp + man
--versionPrint version informationhelp + man

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.