Way back while studying I used tcsh as my main shell and it had this nifty feature of being able to correct a misspelled command name by pressing Escape-$ which would the. change eg “bsah” to “bash”
Now I needed it (apparently kustomize is not keyboard friendly) but could not recall ever having seen this in bash.
Can bash do this and if so how?
To my knowledge in bash, there is no direct equivalent to the M-$ feature in tcsh for correcting misspelled command names.
Bash offers some useful features like:
These can help you to correct misspelled command names or navigate through previous commands effectively in Bash.
It doesn't offer the exact functionality of M-$ in tcsh, but these features should be helpful.
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zsh, with itsCORRECTshell option set.shopt -s dirspell cdspell, you can getbashto correct directory names on pathname completions andcdcommands respectively, but specifically spell-checking command names does not seem to be available in it.spell-wordwidget). Any particular reason to choose bash? Seems an odd choice to me especially when coming from tcsh. See also thedvorakoption in case you're using a dvorak keyboards so the spelling corrections are tuned to that keyboard layout, and thecorrectandcorrectallopionts for the auto-correct (like tcsh'scorrectvariable)kubectl completion ..). As my personal Mac has long since switched to zsh I might give it a try here too.