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A comment on The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009).

Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) by cowturds on Saturday August 21, 2021 @04:58PM (#28260522)
/bin/true is backwards then since 0 usually means false

> Zero is used to represent false, and One is used to represent true. For interpretation, Zero is interpreted as false and anything non-zero is interpreted as true.

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Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) by anyfoo on Saturday August 21, 2021 @05:20PM (#28260677)
Not in this context. In POSIX exit codes, 0 means “no error”, i.e. success. && and || in the shell even work like that.
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Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) by bobbylarrybobby on Saturday August 21, 2021 @05:27PM (#28260711)
Shell commands use an exit status of 0 to indicate success, and any other number indicates failure
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