Placing little scripts in your ~/bin directory makes it abundantly clear why some people love shell scripting, and some jobs require shelll scripting as a skill. It seriously improves the speed and ease of life. Here are a few that I enjoy: Crashplan Because I sometimes need to micromanage my backup software and the software doesn’t function if I try linking it to another folder this simplifies things. #!/bin/bash # file: /~/bin/crash CRASHPLAN_DIR=/usr/local/crashplan/bin cd $CRASHPLAN_DIR; sudo .