# Making cd scripts Work Everywhere With a Bash Function

If you spend a lot of time in the terminal, you probably have a favorite folder you’re constantly jumping into. For many people, it’s a `scripts` directory where all the handy utilities live. Typing `cd ~/scripts` every time gets old fast, so why not make `cd scripts` itself behave like a shortcut?

Aliases won’t work here, because `cd` is a shell builtin. Instead, you can override `cd` with a function while still keeping the normal behavior for everything else.

Add this to your `~/.bashrc`:

```bash
cd() {
    if [ "$1" = "scripts" ]; then
        builtin cd "$HOME/scripts"
    else
        builtin cd "$@"
    fi
}
```

Now, typing `cd scripts` will always jump straight into your `~/scripts` folder, no matter where you are in the filesystem. For all other cases, `cd` behaves exactly as it normally would.

Make sure the directory exists first:

```bash
mkdir -p ~/scripts
```

This approach is portable across different systems, whether you’re on your home Linux box, macOS, or WSL because it references the `scripts` directory in your home folder, not a hardcoded absolute path.

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