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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ In some shells, <CODE>true(1)</CODE> is a shell built-in command, so running <CO
GNU <CODE>true(1)</CODE>, from the GNU coreutils, deserves a special mention, as it's eighty lines long and directly includes four C header files. GNU <CODE>true(1)</CODE>, from the GNU coreutils, deserves a special mention, as it's eighty lines long and directly includes four C header files.
This is not a joke. This is not a joke.
Their <CODE>true.c</CODE> is 2.3 kilobytes, parses the arguments <CODE>--help</CODE> and <CODE>--version</CODE> (only if either are the first argument to the program), and I don't know how big the executable ends up being because the first thing I do when I take control of a GNU system is <CODE>printf "#/bin/sh\nexit 0\n"|dd of="$(which true)";chmod +x "$(which true)"</CODE> (<B>use at your own risk</B>). Their <CODE>true.c</CODE> is 2.3 kilobytes, parses the arguments <CODE>--help</CODE> and <CODE>--version</CODE> (only if either are the first argument to the program), and I don't know how big the executable ends up being because the first thing I do when I take control of a GNU system is <CODE>printf "#/bin/sh\nexit 0\n"|dd of="$(which true)";chmod +x "$(which true)"</CODE> (<B>use at your own risk</B>).
This implementation is not POSIX compliant. The GNU coreutils implementation of <CODE>true(1)</CODE> is not POSIX compliant.
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