From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:52:29 -0400
Subject: /bin/true (was [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix)
Message-ID: <009a01d348e9$e3dce200$ab96a600$@ronnatalie.com>

My favorite reduction to absurdity was /bin/true.   Someone decided we
needed shell commands for true and false.   Easy enough to add a script that
said "exit 0" or exit 1" as its only line.
Then someone realized that the "exit 0" in /bin true was superfluous, the
default return was 0.  /bin/true turned into an empty, yet executable, file.

Then the lawyers got involved.    We got a version of a packaged UNIX (I
think it was Interactive Systems).    Every shell script got twelve lines of
copyright/license boilerplate.     Including /bin true.
The file had nothing but useless comment in it.