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For those who didn't notice yet that their shell[tm] sucks (or are too lazy to switch) while there are better alternatives out there, there is a possibility for bash users to get a minimal spelling correction by doing:

shopt -s cdspell (or put this into your rc file).

Then you get spelling correction for the cd command.

To be serious, this is really not one of the typical shell vs. shell evangelist flames since I really used bash for some years before realizing that there are better alternatives which can do this for example with nearly everything and not just single commands (thats just one nice-to-have).

I really don't understand this, everyone is consequently looking for tools to fit their purposes best but just with their shells people are content with what they have and always had even if it's the rusty version of this shiny car you could have. I mean it's ok if you don't need it but before you use things like shopt -s cdshell just get a better shell.

[via: 256bit]