Hi,
Is there any good reason why coreutils true and false are not POSIX?
man 1p true:
OPTIONS
None.
STDOUT
Not used.
But coreutils true has --version and --help implemented. It needs
>/dev/null redirection to work as expected.
Also these options are the reason why true.c is using many library
functions like setlocale, etc. The binary is bloated and the risk that
something goes wrong/crashs is much higher. I was looking for a minimal
and rock-solid true command to be used in scripts.
IMO it is not worth to violate POSIX just because of cosmetical reasons
(--help/--version). Moreover since the true command usually comes from
the shell I guess that almost no person on earth ever had seen your
nice --help output anyways.
cu,
Rudi
