Convoluted title, eh? After many years of intermittently being miffed when I couldn’t just type cd /NameofAlias and have the bash shell transport me into the directory the alias pointed to, I finally decided to do something about it.

First stop: Mac OS X Hints, where I looked at these two hints:
Enable ‘cd’ into directory aliases from the Terminal
A script to reveal alias paths in the Terminal

From the insight gained there, I cobbled together my one-step solution to the problem…
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