{"id":395,"date":"2008-04-02T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/case-insensitive-tab-completion-in-mac-osx-terminal\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:19:12","slug":"case-insensitive-tab-completion-in-mac-osx-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/case-insensitive-tab-completion-in-mac-osx-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Insensitive Tab Completion in Mac OSX Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOne of the things that keeps annoying me slighty is that by default tab completion in the terminal window is case sensitive.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"dean_ch\" style=\"white-space: wrap;\">\n<ol>\n<li class=\"li1\">\n<div class=\"de1\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s amazing how often I make that mistake &#8230; fortunately there is a way around this. Add the following line to your ~\/.profile file:\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"dean_ch\" style=\"white-space: wrap;\">\n<ol>\n<li class=\"li1\">\n<div class=\"de1\">span class=&#8221;st0&#8243;>&quot;set completion-ignore-case on&quot;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">\n<div class=\"de1\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Once you have done this, restart Terminal and try again. Now tab completion is case insensitive very nice \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that keeps annoying me slighty is that by default tab completion in the terminal window is case sensitive. &nbsp; It&#8217;s amazing how often I make that mistake &#8230; fortunately there is a way around this. Add &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/case-insensitive-tab-completion-in-mac-osx-terminal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[412,269,326],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-mac","tag-osx","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}