I use the UNIX underpinnings extensively and I use the Finder a lot to do development. Based on earlier Mac OS X Hints about not moving any Apple installed Folders or Apps, I have tried to organize things a little more efficiently.
I started by moving to /Applications in the Finder and created aliases to several places. The Utilities directory is too far down to be helpful if you have a lot of apps, so I made an alias (option-cmd) to Utilities and renamed the alias "1Utilities".
Oddity #1 - Unix does not know about what a Finder alias is supposed to behave like.
bash2.05a lfk@localhost ~ % ls -ld TEST*
drwxr-xr-x 2 lfk staff 68 Sep 10 12:32 TEST
-rw-r--r-- 1 lfk staff 0 Sep 10 12:32 TEST alias
bash2.05a % cd TEST ;
bash2.05a TEST % cd ../TEST\ alias
bash: cd: ../TEST alias: Not a directory
bash2.05a % ln -s TEST "TEST alias"All is fine with the world.
bash2.05a % ls -ld TEST*
drwxr-xr-x 2 lfk staff 68 Sep 10 12:32 TEST
lrwxr-xr-x 1 lfk staff 4 Sep 10 12:45 TEST alias -> TEST
bash2.05a % cd TEST
bash2.05a TEST % cd ../TEST\ alias
bash2.05a TEST alias %
bash2.05a /Applications % ls -ld * | head -6P.S. While writing this hint, I noticed the following non-UNIX (but good behavior in the shell - bash). I use completion (TAB) a lot, but with all the spaces in names, it is not as helpful. But if you type a double-quote and then TAB, the shell will complete the filename including spaces, and put a second double-quote at the end. Cool! I don't remember this working like this in 10.1.5.
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 23 Sep 10 11:37 1Utilities -> /Applications/Utilities
drwxrwxr-x 18 root admin 612 Sep 10 11:37 2NonA_Utilities
drwxrwxr-x 9 root admin 306 Aug 20 11:03 3CocoaUnix
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3 Sep 10 11:37 4Fink -> /sw
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 10 Sep 10 11:37 5UsrLocal -> /usr/local
drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 Aug 28 22:53 Acrobat Reader 5.0
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020912060903263