Tweaking Bash 'cd' and TAB completion to recognize spelling mistakes

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I was looking for a tweak to the cd command so that it recognizes spelling mistakes of directories and auto complete similar directory names. Right now, I have settings that recognize the spelling mistakes of directory but does not auto complete them. For directory spelling mistake correction I have this code in `~/.bashrc`: ``` shopt -s cdspell ``` Now it works in the following manner, suppose I have a directory called "trash" ``` vickey@home:~$ cd tras trash vickey@home:~/trash$ cd .. vickey@home:~$ cd trasx trash vickey@home:~/trash$ pwd /home/vickey/trash vickey@home:~/trash$ vickey@home:~$ cd Trash trash vickey@home:~/trash$ pwd /home/vickey/trash ``` But the problem I have is suppose I make a directory called Temp and do something like ``` vickey@home:~$ mkdir Temp vickey@home:~$ cd temp Temp vickey@home:~/Temp$ cd .. vickey@home:~$ cd te #and tab here test/ textin/ ``` it does not show `Temp` as an option. Is there anyway to make auto completion case insensitive?

Accepted Answer

Completion is a feature of `readline`.

You can enable case insensitive completion either by:

1) Adding to your `~/.bashrc`:

```
bind 'set completion-ignore-case on'
```

OR

2) Adding to your `/etc/inputrc`:

```
set completion-ignore-case on
```

Notes:

`/etc/inputrc`, as @mak comments, effects all shells that use `readline`, and not just `bash`.

This will make all completions case insensitive.

Tweaking Bash 'cd' and TAB completion to recognize spelling mistakes

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