Functions to include in .profile to enable OSX style aliases in the terminal.

OSX Enabled 'cd'

function resolvealias {
  echo $(osascript << EOS
tell application "Finder"
set theItem to (POSIX file "${1}") as alias
if the kind of theItem is "alias" then
get the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text)
end if
end tell
EOS
)
}

function cd {
  if [ ${#1} == 0 ]; then
    builtin cd
  elif [[ -d "${1}" || -L "${1}" ]]; then
    builtin cd "${1}"
  elif [[ -f "${1}" ]]; then
    path=$(resolvealias "$1")
    if [[ -z $path ]]; then
      builtin cd "${1}"
    else
      builtin cd "${path}"
    fi
  else
    builtin cd "${1}"
  fi
}