July 25, 2015

Bash Shortcut: How to Make Directory and Change Directory in One Command

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If you’re like me, you’re constantly using the command line to make a directory and then immediately change to that directory. Here’s a Bash function that will allows you to do that:

# Make a directory && cd into that directory
function mkdircd () { mkdir -p "$@" && eval cd "\"\$$#\""; }

This function takes the user supplied directory name, makes all the directories needed to get there, and then cds to that directory.

Hope you find it useful!


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