[mythtv-users] VHS Digitizing
David Brodbeck
gull at gull.us
Tue Aug 18 18:34:47 UTC 2009
H P Ladds wrote:
> Mind explaining what the /bin/true does? Might it tell MythTV to wait
> for external change commands and ignore Myth's internal commands?
/bin/true is a program that does nothing and returns a successful exit
code. So nothing happens but Myth believes the channel change
succeeded. Its opposite counterpart is /bin/false.
The man pages put it more succinctly:
"true - do nothing, successfully"
"false - do nothing, unsuccessfully"
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