FWIW, GNU true.c is that way because the GNU policy is for programs to all have --help and --version arguments.
Other fun fact, in some UNIXes, true looked(looks?) like:
#!/bin/sh
# Some multiple line copyright notice from AT&T
Yup, that's a shell script with only comments, all of which are a copyright notice for what is, essentially, an empty file. I saw that on Solaris something like 15 years ago. I'm sure it made its way to other flavors of UNIX.
Other fun fact, in some UNIXes, true looked(looks?) like:
Yup, that's a shell script with only comments, all of which are a copyright notice for what is, essentially, an empty file. I saw that on Solaris something like 15 years ago. I'm sure it made its way to other flavors of UNIX.