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marcosdumay on Sept 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tao of Programming (1987)

It's always nice to run "/bin/true --version".

On my machine it's on version 8.32. But it's a program that run many more commands than just true. It's a good reminder that things are always more complicated than they seem.

zamadatix on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

Adding on to the complexity of things: I have a /bin/true but, as noted by /bin/true --help, my shell has its own true as well!

martincmartin on Sept 27, 2023 | [–]

true.

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