There isn't an builtin way to do this in bash but what you are asking for is 2 things: * Trigger an action on changing a directory * That action should be to

There isn't an builtin way to do this in bash but what you are asking for is 2 things: * Trigger an action on changing a directory * That action should be to change your bash history file The second part is pretty easy to do -- you just change the $HISTFILE environment variable and export it. For the first part though, you can either use a naive little function that replaces bash's builtin `cd`[1] or you can use any one of the many tools specifically created for this sort of a thing: http://swapoff.org/ondir.html https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv http://direnv.net/ https://github.com/cxreg/smartcd Note however, that most unix tools are angnostic to the current working dir so... $ /path/to/cmd /some/other/path/to/argument $ cd /path/to && ./cmd /some/other/path/to/argument $ cd /some/other/path/to && /path/to/cmd argument ...might all do the same thing but will be saved in different history files if you implement what you need. [1] http://superuser.com/a/296554/267793 http://superuser.com/a/296554/267793