On 1/8/13 5:18 PM, John Caruso wrote: > In bash 4.1, if you do "shopt +s dirspell" and type "ls /ect/passwd<TAB>" > it's corrected to "ls /etc/passwd". In bash 4.2 with dirspell enabled, > the correction doesn't happen. > > Some searching shows that the bash 4.1 behavior can apparently be enabled > again in bash 4.2 with a patch that adds a new "direxpand" option. Is this > the case? If so, is direxpand actually available in any released version > of bash yet (and if so which version)?
That functionality came in as part of bash-4.2 patch 29. Please try it and let me know what it's missing. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/