Case Insensitive Tab Completion in Mac OSX Terminal

One of the things that keeps annoying me slighty is that by default tab completion in the terminal window is case sensitive.

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It’s amazing how often I make that mistake … fortunately there is a way around this. Add the following line to your ~/.profile file:

  1. span class=”st0″>"set completion-ignore-case on"
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Once you have done this, restart Terminal and try again. Now tab completion is case insensitive very nice 🙂