Penguinspeak

I launch Terminal many times per day, and usually go to one of a handful of directories right off the bat. I just discovered the handiness of creating aliases in Terminal.

Let’s say you often go to /Volumes/development/depot/mainbranch. Let’s create an alias to that called ‘mb’ for ‘mainbranch’ (this can be whatever you want, of course.
Simply launch terminal.
Type: alias mb=’cd /Volumes/development/depot/mainbranch’
Done!
Now just type ‘mb’ at the command prompt and you’ll be taken directly to that directory!
Sweet!

Note, you can also do the same to launch applications:
alias tx=‘open /Applications/TextEdit.app/’