Sick of typing $ cd someFolder and $ mkdir someFolder? If you live in the terminal enough, it gets annoying. Here’s a shortcut.

Add the following alias to your bash profile (usually found at ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile):

alias cdd='function _cdd() { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"; unset -f _cdd; }; _cdd'

This is how it works:

• alias cdd=... sets up the alias cdd to the following command.
• function _cdd() {...}; _cdd is a temporary function that is immediately called. This structure is necessary because aliases can’t accept arguments directly. The function definition and call are both included in the alias command.
• mkdir -p "$1" creates a new directory with the name given by the first argument. The -p flag tells mkdir to create parent directories as needed.
• && only runs the following command if the previous command succeeded, ensuring that we don’t cd into a directory that wasn’t created successfully.
• cd "$1" changes the current working directory to the new directory.
• unset -f _cdd removes the function definition after it’s used to avoid conflicts with any other functions or commands.

Remember to source your bash profile after adding the alias for the changes to take effect. You can do this with the command source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile, depending on which file you added the alias to.