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Not even both of those; I thought there famously existed some way to make GNU true return non-zero. EDIT: Yep, https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/mast
by remexre 5y ago
Not even both of those; I thought there famously existed some way to make GNU true return non-zero.
EDIT: Yep, https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true.c#L67-L69 https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....
- ghoward 5y agoHa! So it is impossible! Seriously, though, thank you for the link. That is good to know!
- Someone 5y agoBut that’s a complex program, with command-line parsing, locale usage, etc. No wonder it has bugs :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 was a one-byte program, but that had a bug, so it had to be doubled in size. And yes, it still exists (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=utilities-iefbr14-utility-do-almost-nothing https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=utilities...). I wouldn’t know how large it is nowadays.