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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's used by the true command as the source of truth for what the return code is.

Edit: I found a copy of the file and verified it:

$ xxd -c 8 true.dat | head -n 4
00000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
00000008: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
00000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
00000018: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
$ 

As you can see, it's all zeroes, which is what the return code for true should always be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago