In bash readline, how do I make the incremental search case insensitive In bash readline, how do I make the incremental search case insensitive bash bash

In bash readline, how do I make the incremental search case insensitive


Short Answer: No you can't get this feature in BASH at present because this feature hasn't been built yet into vi or emacs mode. As I commented above completion-ignore-case only applies to completion, not to isearch.


see if you have a file called "inputrc" in either "~/.inputrc" or "/etc/inputrc" and add the line.

set completion-ignore-case on