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Re:Sshole by xigoi on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:08AM (#50389948)
But in shell, 0 is true, not false. The program called true returns 0.
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Re:Sshole by Dylan16807 on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:16AM (#50390952)
"True has 0 errors" is the straightforward part.

"False pretends to have an error" is where it gets weird. It's not that they got booleans backwards, it's that they're stretching a tenuous analogy a bit too far.

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