I don't know about you, but for me, every time I run "$ cd" I always end up running "$ ls -A" right afterwards. It's not something I thought much about but I wondered if there was a way to automate that.
Adding the following code snippet to my .bashrc file put these two functions together and it's made my directory traversal much smoother!
function cd() {
new_directory="$*";
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
new_directory=${HOME};
fi;
builtin cd "${new_directory}" && ls -A
}