If you're a virtualenv user, I use this one-liner to start load a virtualenv named after the current directory: alias v='workon "${PWD##*/}"' Also, I real

If you're a virtualenv user, I use this one-liner to start load a virtualenv named after the current directory: alias v='workon "${PWD##*/}"' Also, I really like the -p flag of mkdir (creating child directories as needed, without failing if one doesn't exist) alias mkdir='mkdir -p' # i.e. mkdir ./a/b/c/