Hack 6. Use “shopt -s cdspell” to automatically correct mistyped directory names on cd

by Ramesh

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]