Lazy bash cd aliases

Those of you who've found value in my last couple of bash specific posts may also like the latest addition to my ~/.bash_profile.

This one iterates through the one or more directories and creates aliases to the subdirectories so I don't have to. Here's the scenario: I've got a directory ~/work/ where I keep work projects, a ~/writings/ where I keep all the writing projects and so on. I used to have aliases to each subdirectory. e.g. alias project1="cd /Users/muness/work/project1". With shame, I admit that I maintained each of these manually. No more!

Install instructions:

curl http://github.com/relevance/etc/tree/master%2Fbash%2Fproject_aliases.sh?raw=true?raw=true > ~/.project_aliases.sh
echo "source ~/. project_aliases.sh" >> ~/.bash_profile

Usage instructions:

• Move your work projects to ~/work.
• Above the source ~/. project_aliases.sh add PROJECT_PARENT_DIRS[0]="$HOME/work".

You may be interested in my blog post over at PragMactic OS-Xer where I describe my motivation for these recent shell scripts.