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user-inactivated · 2250 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.
Brouhahaha · 2250 days ago · link ·
I was aware, and of his status as the designer of Go. I wasn't aware that writing a book once meant you could never make a bad engineering design, the engineering community will be surprised to learn it.