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m_vitaly
Asked: 2010-12-31 06:27:01 +0800 CST

Case insensitive bash auto-complete

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Is there a way to make the file/dir auto-complete in bash case insensitive?

For example I would like to write:
/opt/ibm/whatever/test [TAB]

And bash will auto-complete it to:
/opt/IBM/Whatever/TESTfile

Or at least only the last part of test to TESTfile.

I know that filesystems are case-sensitive, I just don't want to remember which parts are UPPER-case, I want auto-complete to fix the path for me.

And if I have both TESTfile and testfile, just show me both of them like bash does today with auto-complete conflicts.

linux bash case-sensitive case-insensitive

1 Answers

  1. To add a little bit to this discussion;

    shopt -s nocaseglob

    This will affect wildcard expansion, so ls w* would show w1.txt W1.txt. However, as I understand it, tab-completion will ignore this setting.

    You can affect tab-completion with inputrc;

    echo 'set completion-ignore-case On' >> /etc/inputrc

    Or (~/.inputrc if your system is setup this way)

    Andrew

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