true

[Perl Monkee]

okay - this is taken from the man page for true (as distributed with
Slackware linux 8.0)

NAME
       true - do nothing, successfully

SYNOPSIS
       true [ignored command line arguments]
       true OPTION

DESCRIPTION
       Exit with a status code indicating success.

       These option names may not be abbreviated.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <address@hidden>.


is this a joke? or poor usage of a man-page template? or an honest
mistake?

Obviously, since the command line arguments are ignored, neither --help
nor --version do ANYTHING.
I find this to be funny even if it was intentional.  if not, its even
funnier.