Case insensitive completion in 10.3

Mar 15, '04 10:55:00AM

Contributed by: sitharus

In Jaguar under tcsh you could set the tab-completion in the terminal to be case insensitive, so, for example, you could type /vol, press tab and have it complete to /Volumes. The old hint doesn't work with Panther and bash, so here's how. As a single command, execute this in Terminal.app:

echo "set completion-ignore-case On" >> ~/.inputrc
Open a new terminal window, and it's working. I don't know of any way to activate it for a single session.

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