Bash made better with shopt

Submitted by hemanth on Fri, 12/25/2009 - 01:11

1.Enable automatic typo correction for directory names
shopt -s cdspell
Testing

hemanth@ubuntu:/var/log$ cd /tp
/tmp
hemanth@ubuntu:/tmp$
 
hemanth@ubuntu:/$ cd /hom
/home
hemanth@ubuntu:/home$ 
 
hemanth@ubuntu:/home$ cd /mt
/mnt
hemanth@ubuntu:/mnt$

2.Enable ** to expand files recursively (>=bash-4.0)
shopt -s globstar
3.Avoiding history file to be overwritten
shopt -s histappend
4.Enable cd by variable names
shopt -s cdable_vars</cdoe>
<b>5.Bash autocomplete case insensitive search</b>
<code>shopt -s nocaseglob

6.Auto cd on ~ to /home/user (>=bash-4.0)
shopt -s autocd

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