Aliases in .bashrc

[Hans van den Boogert <hansfong@mail.geocities.com>]

I made the two following aliases in the .bashrc in my home directory....

alias mcd='mount /dev/hdb /cdrom'
alias ucd='umount /cdrom'

They work fine, but I also want to immediately jump to /cdrom when I mount a CD. Thus I ammended the mcd alias to read...

alias mcd='mount /dev/hdb /cdrom|cd /cdrom'

This didn't work and I wonder if this is because aliases can only execute one bash command, or if I did something wrong.

The solution, I guess, would be to write a shell script and make the alias point to that, but I think one line aliases are neater.

Hans