The ability to match module name in a case insensitive manner has been added. This feature can be enabled at different level with the following values set to the icase configuration option:

• never: a case sensitive match is applied in any cases
• search: a case insensitive match is applied to the avail, whatis and paths sub-commands
• always: a case insensitive match is applied to search contexts and also to the other module sub-commands and modulefile Tcl commands for the module specification they receive as argument.

It can help for instance to load a module without knowing the case used to name its relative modulefile:

$ module config icase always
$ module load -v mysoftware
Loading MySoftware/1.0

Insensitive case match activation can be controlled at configure time with the --with-icase option, which could be passed any of the above activation levels. This option could be superseded with the MODULES_ICASE environment variable, which could be set through the config sub-command with the icase option. Command-line switch --icase supersedes in turns any other icase configurations. When this command-line switch is passed, icase mode equals always.

This new feature is available in git repository and will be included into the upcoming v4.4 release.