When one starts typing in a filename/directory name on a bash prompt, you can hit 
TAB and it auto-completes it.  However, I have seen systems (in fact I have three of 
them that shows this behavior) where if you mistyped something, be it 
uppercase/lowercase mismatch, or spelling error, it'll automatically "fix" that and 
perform the task.  Of course, this depends on whether there are no other matches 
possible.

    Here is an example of what I'm referring to:

<user@battlezone:/speedy> ls
    apache/   sources/  temp/

<user@battlezone:/speedy> cd apche
apache
<user@battlezone:/speedy/apache> cd ..

<user@battlezone:/speedy> cd sourc3s
sources
<user@battlezone:/speedy/sources> cd ..

<user@battlezone:/speedy> cd tmp
temp
<user@battlezone:/speedy/temp> cd ..
<user@battlezone:/speedy>


    I _think_ this is something set in bash since those machines are also using bash.  
The question is, _what_?  Does anyone know?

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