[jasomill]

If I want to glob files with an 'ecks' in the name I can write x* and not have to do it twice for x and X.*

Adding

  shopt -s nocaseglob

to ~/.bashrc makes globbing case-insensitive in bash[1].

Tab completion works if I type x<tab> instead of blanking on me and making me double check and type X<tab>.

Adding

  set completion-ignore-case on

to ~/.inputrc makes completion case-insensitive in bash (and other programs that use libreadline)[2].

Both options are independent of file system case-sensitivity.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt...

[2] https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#inde...

[jodrellblank]

> Both options are independent of file system case-sensitivity.

In Windows world it works everywhere, in any win32 program - file open dialogs, et al. Here you have to have it built in to every tool. (and windows doesn't do it at the filesystem layer)