Re: Old bugs in the man true & man false

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 2/20/2009 12:00 PM:
> However both true and false ignore any options provided. They do not
> support these options.
> 
> Solution: delete their mention from the man pages.

Not a bug, but a misunderstanding on your part.  GNU coreutils' true and
false DO support options; in fact, the man page is generated from the
- --help option.

Did you read the rest of the man page?
 NOTE: your shell may have its own version of true, which usually
 supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to your
 shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.

And indeed, when compared to the bash builtin:

$ true --help
$ /bin/true --help
Usage: /bin/true [ignored command line arguments]
  or:  /bin/true OPTION
...

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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