A
UNIX program that does
nothing, and fails miserably at it. From the
man page for
GNU false:
- NAME
- false - do nothing, unsuccessfully.
- SYNOPSIS
- false [ignored command line arguments]
The command would typically be used in
shell scripts as a
place holder where an
unsuccessful command is needed. It may also be used
safely as a
dummy shell for disabling
accounts. The
complementary command is GNU
true.