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Re: Case discrimination
- To: avadekar at certicom dot com
- Subject: Re: Case discrimination
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:11:07 -0500
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <20010125110035.E20263@volta.certicom.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Ashok Vadekar wrote:
>
> I looked at the FAQ for case insensitivity of bash, and tried the recommended
> shopt -s nocaseglob
> but it doesn't seem to do what I expected.
> CD'ed to a directory containing the files "file1" and "File2", I was
> hoping that typing "ls f<TAB>"
> would result in expansion only up to the "e", and a further <TAB> would
> present a list of the two files. It did not; instead, I got a fully expanded
> "file1". Have I got something else wrong, or does the shopt option not do
> what I was expecting. If not, is there another method of obtaining this
> behaviour?
>
echo 'set completion-ignore-case on' > ~/.inputrc
C-xC-r
The shopt set shell options where the ~/.inputrc file is for readline
options. More documentation `info --file /usr/info/readline'.
Cheers,
Earnie.
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