[mythtv-users] VHS Digitizing

[Johan Heikkilä]

2009/8/18 David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us>:
> 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"
>

The obligatory.

True in a Nutshell

http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/oreilly/truenut.html


:-)