Re: [PATCH][RFC] New 'true' program

[James Youngman]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:20:58PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:

> If small size is all you want, I can do a lot better than that:
> 
> $ ls -l true
> -rwxr-xr-x  1  eggert  eggert  10  2004-11-19 22:18  true
> $ ./true; echo $?
> 0
> 
> (The 10-byte implementation is left to the reader.  :-)

Well, there's this alternative:-

address@hidden:~$ touch true
address@hidden:~$ chmod +x true
address@hidden:~$ ./true
address@hidden:~$ echo $?
0
address@hidden:~$ ls -l true
-rwxr-xr-x  1 james users 0 Nov 20 10:24 true
address@hidden:~$

Regards,
James.