Case sensitivity

[GJones]

... is IMO by far the most annoying thing about the UNIX command line. Fortunately for those of us still using bash, there is an easy solution.

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set completion-ignore-case on

Put that in ~/.inputrc for per-user configuration, or /etc/inputrc to apply it system-wide. Next time you open a bash prompt, hitting tab will complete to the nearest possible word regardless of case, e.g. "~/proj" -> "~/Projects/". Since I started using case-insensitive completion, I have pretty much abandoned graphical file managers - the CLI is that much faster.

[kcirick]

Thanks for the tip!

I really don't have issues with case sensitivity when navigating through my files. I do use thunar for when I want to open certain media files using different applications. Do you have any cool tricks? For example, if I type in 'open file.pdf' will bring up evince (or other pdf viewer), and if I type 'open file.avi', it will bring up mplayer, etc...

[mimosa]

MPlayer is only case-sensitive in slapt-get. Thx gd. :p

[gapan]

Thanks for the tip!

I really don't have issues with case sensitivity when navigating through my files. I do use thunar for when I want to open certain media files using different applications. Do you have any cool tricks? For example, if I type in 'open file.pdf' will bring up evince (or other pdf viewer), and if I type 'open file.avi', it will bring up mplayer, etc...

You mean like:

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xdg-open file.pdf

or

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xdg-open file.avi

or whatever filetype you want really...

You can even alias xdg-open to open...

[GJones]

For that you probably want to use perl-File-MimeInfo via the mimeopen command.

Edit: perl-File-MimeInfo is bugged ATM, just a second...

[kcirick]

Thanks for the tip!

I really don't have issues with case sensitivity when navigating through my files. I do use thunar for when I want to open certain media files using different applications. Do you have any cool tricks? For example, if I type in 'open file.pdf' will bring up evince (or other pdf viewer), and if I type 'open file.avi', it will bring up mplayer, etc...

You mean like:

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xdg-open file.pdf

or

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xdg-open file.avi

or whatever filetype you want really...

You can even alias xdg-open to open...

Yup. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks