[Bash-completion-devel] [SCM] bash-completion branch, master, updated. 1.90-103-gae34153

[Ville Skyttä]

On 2011-12-20 17:53, Igor Murzov wrote:
>> +    cc  --version 2>/dev/null | grep -q GCC && complete -F _gcc cc  || :
>> +    c++ --version 2>/dev/null | grep -q GCC && complete -F _gcc c++ || :
> 
> What does "|| :" part mean? I can't find an explanation :)

Effectively the same as "|| true", but a more common expression for it.
 Just a way to force the compound command to always succeed.

The point is that we want to avoid non-zero return values for optional
things at end up completion files when loading them (see
_completion_loader).