Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman | Date | 27 Mar 1999 10:49:36 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.199903262327.SAA03824@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote: >In message <19990326113153.A29659@anjala.mit.edu>, Arvind Sankar writes: >+----- >| 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... :) >+--->8 > >Never mind /bin/false; the original /bin/true was an *empty file*.
Which als works on Linux (at least for me, on Mastodon; I just stripped out 56 bytes of unneeded bloat by trying `sync > /bin/true')
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