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Bash provides the interactive commands forward-search-history and reverse-search-history typically bound to the keys CTRL-s and CTRL-r respectively.

Are there case-insentive equivalents or is there a configuration to have these commands case-insensitive?

bind -P | grep -iE 'search|case' did not turn out anything relevant.

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    I use fzf as replacement for ctrl+r history search and can recommend. Commented Jan 17, 2022 at 8:09
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    None, see stackoverflow.com/questions/20523393/… Commented Jan 17, 2022 at 12:22
  • Switch to zsh. Its history search is case-insensitive by default, and its interactive features are much more configurable for when you don't like the defaults. Commented Aug 3, 2024 at 19:42

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You can create a file named .inputrc in your home directory, and place this line in it:

set completion-ignore-case on

for zsh i use this

setopt NO_CASE_GLOB
setopt NO_CASE_MATCH
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    completion-ignore-case on doesn't work for history search, only completion. see stackoverflow.com/a/20536411 Commented Feb 19 at 17:02

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