My favorite shell trick (not in the link) is this: ~- Tilde-hyphen expands to the previous directory you were in, and of course "cd -" returns you to your prev

My favorite shell trick (not in the link) is this: ~- Tilde-hyphen expands to the previous directory you were in, and of course "cd -" returns you to your previous directory, so I put them together all the time. Here's an example workflow (with a fake PS1): mac:/Users/me/Projects/my_new_app$ cd ~/.pow mac:/Users/me/.pow$ ln -s ~- . mac:/Users/me/.pow$ cd - mac:/Users/me/Projects/my_new_app$ Now I can continue working on my app. <disclaimer> That's bit of a contrived example above. Here's a more realistic way to do a symlink for pow: mac:/Users/me/Projects/my_new_app$ ln -s `pwd` ~/.pow/ </disclaimer>