> On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:59:01AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat.
> >
>
> well, its a 395 byte shell script that does the same thing as exit 1,
> but it's cute :) Surely you want to know the version of your lies... :)
>
> You might think of it as an example, same as the `hello' package.
Solaris:
#!/usr/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
# All Rights Reserved
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
# actual or intended publication of such source code.
#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, *1* line.]
At least /bin/false on the Linux box doesn't start with pompous legalese
(unusual for GNU stuff, but I guess that even RMS had enough sense not to
toss GPL over the usage of exit).
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