True and false (commands) True and false (commands) In Unix-like operating systems, codice_1 and codice_2 are commands whose only function is to always return with a predetermined exit status. Programmers and scripts often use the exit status of a command to assess success (exit status zero) or failure (non-zero) of the command. The codice_1 and codice_2 commands represent the logical values of command success, because "true" returns 0, and "false" returns 1. The commands are usually employed in conditional statements and loops of shell scripts. For example, the following shell script repeats the "echo hello" loop until interrupted: while true do done The commands
Less-than sign been repurposed for a range of uses and operations. The less-than sign (<) is an original ASCII character (hex 3C, decimal 60). The less-than sign is used for an approximation of the opening angle bracket (⟨). ASCII does not have angle brackets. In BASIC, Lisp-family languages, and C-family languages (including Java and C++), operator < means "less than". In Coldfusion, operator .lt. means "less than". In Fortran, operator .LT. means "less than"; later versions allow <. In Bourne shell, operator -lt means "less than". The double less-than sign («) is used for an approximation of the much-less-than sign (≪) or