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> You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway? What? No, what's that about?

atdt 9y ago
There's the cdspell shopt: "If set, minor errors in the spelling of a directory component in a cd command will be corrected. The errors checked for are transposed characters, a missing character, and a character too many. If a correction is found, the corrected path is printed, and the command proceeds." (https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt...)
- dfc 9y ago
  That's for `cd smoedir` I am not aware of what would do `./smoeexec`
  - Filligree 9y ago
    zsh can do that, but will prompt you before actually running anything.
    - dfc 9y ago
      Which is not really relevant because the thread and the linked article are about bash.
- bobbyi_settv 9y ago
  It's an interesting idea, but is made mostly irrelevant by tab completion.
  - ihaveajob 9y ago
    I knew a guy who aliased all permutations of 'make' (maek, mkae, amke...) to 'make', so he just hammer the keys at once and be sure the thing would run.
    - knodi123 9y ago
      I've had to do this with grep, gerp gpre gper. I've determined that I'm just constitutionally incapable of typing that word more than 2 in 3 times, and I've learned to cope with my disability.
Jedd 9y ago
> What? No, what's that about? From TFA: "Update 2015-04-18 -- I suppose I should finally clear this up: The autocorrect functionality I originally described here was a feature of the first Linux systems I ever used, so I assumed it was how every Linux system worked by default. Since then I've come to understand that it's a completely optional extra doodad."
pierrec 9y ago
Yeah, I'm not aware of any distro that has this setting enabled by default. It's neat that it exists, though.
- nitrogen 9y ago
  Distros in the late 90s were a lot more adventurous in their defaults as I recall.

atdt 9y ago

There's the cdspell shopt: "If set, minor errors in the spelling of a directory component in a cd command will be corrected. The errors checked for are transposed characters, a missing character, and a character too many. If a correction is found, the corrected path is printed, and the command proceeds." (https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt...)

dfc 9y ago
That's for `cd smoedir` I am not aware of what would do `./smoeexec`
- Filligree 9y ago
  zsh can do that, but will prompt you before actually running anything.
  - dfc 9y ago
    Which is not really relevant because the thread and the linked article are about bash.
bobbyi_settv 9y ago
It's an interesting idea, but is made mostly irrelevant by tab completion.
- ihaveajob 9y ago
  I knew a guy who aliased all permutations of 'make' (maek, mkae, amke...) to 'make', so he just hammer the keys at once and be sure the thing would run.
  - knodi123 9y ago
    I've had to do this with grep, gerp gpre gper. I've determined that I'm just constitutionally incapable of typing that word more than 2 in 3 times, and I've learned to cope with my disability.

Jedd 9y ago

> What? No, what's that about? From TFA: "Update 2015-04-18 -- I suppose I should finally clear this up: The autocorrect functionality I originally described here was a feature of the first Linux systems I ever used, so I assumed it was how every Linux system worked by default. Since then I've come to understand that it's a completely optional extra doodad."

pierrec 9y ago

Yeah, I'm not aware of any distro that has this setting enabled by default. It's neat that it exists, though.

nitrogen 9y ago
Distros in the late 90s were a lot more adventurous in their defaults as I recall.