make and change into a directory

Behdad Esfahbod behdad-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org
Sat May 20 03:50:15 UTC 2006


On Fri, 19 May 2006, Sy Ali wrote:

> I guess my question is:
> How can I make an alias do two things?

Define it as a function instead of an alias:

mcd() {
	mkdir "$1"
	cd "$1"
}

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