Is there a way to ignore case sensitivity for directories with tab to autocomplete?

Question

I'm used to the windows cmd/powershell autocomplete, where it ignores the capitals.

for example, in CMD I would type:

C:\Users\testUser> cd doc

hit tab, and get

C:\Users\testUser> cd Documents

However, in my Ubuntu terminal, if I do something like:

testUser@hostname~:$ cd doc

and hit tab, I just get the error "plink". However, typing:

testUser@hostname~:$ cd Doc

allows me to hit tab and autocomplete to

testUser@hostname~:$ cd Documents/

is this just how bash behaves? it would be nice to save an extra shift press every time...

Answer 1

In your ${HOME}/.inputrc file (create it if does not exists), add or change value for completion-ignore-case attribute. Like this:

set completion-ignore-case on

And launch a new terminal or launch bind command in current terminal:

bind -f ~/.inputrc

Note:

• .inputrc file is not a bash configuration file but a readline library configuration file. GNU bash use readline library.
• Documentation about GNU readline library: https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#Readline-Init-File-Syntax