Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Bob wrote in message: > > Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > > > (reverse-i-search)`wh': aptitude why patch > > > --- After typing "wh" (without the quotes), it does not accept more > > > letters! > > > > What you are missing is that the search is case sensitive. The "Wh" > > in "White" is *not* matched by "wh" with lower case 'w'. > > ..from grep --help |less: ;o) > -i, --ignore-case ignore case distinctions That is a grep option. It doesn't apply to bash's history search. As far as I know there is no option to ignore case in bash's history search. But I don't know very much about such things. Bob
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