Use shopt -s cdspell to correct the typos in the cd command automatically as shown below. If you are not good at typing and make lot of mistakes, this will be very helpful.
# cd /etc/mall
-bash: cd: /etc/mall: No such file or directory
# shopt -s cdspell
# cd /etc/mall
# pwd
/etc/mail
[Note: By mistake, when I typed mall instead of mail,
cd corrected it automatically]
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very useful.
But I think the scope of “shopt -s cdspell” command is in the current terminal only.
How can i set it permanently so that whenever i login it will correct my typo error.
Thanks,
Sathish.
@Sathish, you can make “shopt -s cdspell” command permanent using adding this line to your bash_profile file. You bash_profile is located in your home directory.
$vi ~/.bash_profile
shopt -s cdspell
Save the file. You need to log out once and login again to make it permanent. After this, you need not to type this command for each terminal.