Re: [Help-bash] Preferred method wrapping mkdir

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:55:17AM -0800, Joseph Pesco wrote:
>         alias mkdir=cfs_mkdir
>         
>         cfs_mkdir () {
> 
>                 local MKDIR=/usr/bin/mkdir
>               $MKDIR ???$1???
>                 cd ???$1???
>         }

mkdir() { command mkdir "$@" && cd "${@:(-1)}"; }

This allows you to do, for example, "mkdir -p /some/long/path" and have
it work as expected (ending with cd /some/long/path).