How to mkdir and switch to new directory in one line
The portable way to do this is with a shell function--not a bash function (using bashims like function). Put this in the relevant .profile for interactive use:
mkdir () { case $1 in (-c) command mkdir -p "$2" && cd "$2";; (*) command mkdir "$@";; esac }This adds the -c option to mkdir for interactive use. Without -c the utility acts as it always does.- And note the quoting of "$2" so this works with directories with white space in their name.