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People like to dig at the size of GNU's /bin/true and /bin/false, but the reality is - who cares? Does anyone actually ever use it? $ type true true is

People like to dig at the size of GNU's /bin/true and /bin/false, but the reality is - who cares? Does anyone actually ever use it? $ type true true is a shell builtin

wyldfire 10y ago
I've frequently bypassed tests/checks by replacing them with a symlink to /bin/true. So, yes. But no I don't care how big it is.
aexaey 10y ago
/bin/false is commonly specified instead of a shell in /etc/passwd for accounts that are not supposed to have interactive logins.