Filename completion in Linux with mixed case and ignored case.

2010-06-23 1 min read bash Linux
This is one of my favourites, alwahs keep it handy. Linux is case sensitive by nature but you will always find filenames jumbled up in the case. So what is the solution: bind ”set completion-ignore-case on” Just execute the above in your bash command and file/dir name will behave like Windows. Remember that this is per session setting and thus the names do not get changed internally, it only changes the way to access it (specifically completion only). Continue reading