Question

I’m wondering if anyone can do this. Say I have this folder structure:

Folder A
    Folder Apple
    Folder Orange

If I am currently in Folder A, I’d like it so that if I type “cd Ap” and hit enter, it’ll automatically put me in the “Apple” subfolder. Essentially, it would attempt to autocomplete and open the folder based off the partial input.

If I am currently in Folder A, and I type “cd ap” and hit enter (lowercase “a”), I would get an error because it couldn’t autocomplete to an actual subfolder name. Is this possible? I’m working in Korn.

Answer 1

I’m not quite going to answer your question, but I’ll get close. It seems to me like hitting the tab key isn’t the hurdle for you, it’s the capitalization. I know the feeling, it’s like choosing between camelCase and inconvenient typing.

I’ve only done this in bash, my apoligies. If I recall, bash and ksh are rather close, so I’m hoping it will work for you.

set completion-ignore-case on turns on case-insensitive completion in bash. Naturally this goes into any startup scripts you may want it in.

Good luck, tell us if it works in ksh !