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user-inactivated  ·  2460 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: /bin/true used to be an empty file. The shell would open it, do nothing, and exit with a true status code.

Not to rain on your snark parade or anything, but Rob Pike literally (co)wrote the book on unix.