Drop in .bash_profile to always remember the working directory between sessions

.bash_profile

# Remember the current directory
if [ `type -t cd` == builtin ]; then
  cd ()
  {
    builtin cd "$@"
    pwd > ~/.working-directory
  }
else
  # Alias the cd function (needed if you run RVM)
  eval "$(echo "__cd_without_cwd()"; declare -f cd | tail -n +2)"
  cd ()
  {
    __cd_without_cwd "$@"
    pwd > ~/.working-directory
  }
fi

if [[ -e ~/.working-directory ]]; then cd $(cat ~/.working-directory); fi

you know about cd - right?

That doesn't work between sessions. What this lets me do is cd into a project directory and open a couple of tabs in the same directory. It also remembers where I was when I open Terminal the next time.

What I realized was that the default behavior of always starting in the home directory when I create a new session is rarely what I want. A large percentage of the time I want to go back to whatever I was working on before. And cd ~ is easy enough to type if I need to actually be in my home directory.