Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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mkcd { mkdir dir; cd $_; }
mkcd foo
is probably best compromise. The shell function can be used in that terminal window until reboot. Or one can append the line to their ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, or equivalent for persistence. Anyway, this combination never occurred to me but it is something I do a lot manually and will save me time and typing in the future such as with my N810. So thank you everyone.mkcd { mkdir $@; cd $_; }