Setting the Bash shopt option to nocaseglob allows us to make globs match case-insensitively:
bash$ shopt -s nocaseglob bash$ printf '%s\n' A* april august
In this example, the lowercase april and august were matched and returned, even though the glob started with an uppercase A.
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