Combining two shell commands into a single command - bash

Question

In Bash, we can combine two shell commands cd and ls like this:
function cd {
builtin cd "$#" && ls
}
#this will get a list of file after changing into a directory
Also this
mkcd () { mkdir -p "$#" && cd "$#"; }
#this will create and directory and change into it at once
Can we do similar stuff in Powershell? If so, I would like to make similar functions and put it in my $profile
Thanks for any help.
Steeluser
EDIT:
I realized this could be done from shell like this:
$> pwd|ls
Directory: D:\ps
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 5/7/2011 9:40 PM config
d---- 5/7/2011 9:40 PM output
d---- 5/8/2011 3:37 AM static
-a--- 5/8/2011 3:36 AM 485 create-static-files.ps1
This could be put in a profile like this:
function pl
{
pwd|ls
}
and can be invoked from the shell
ps$ pl
Directory: D:\ps
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 5/7/2011 9:40 PM config
d---- 5/7/2011 9:40 PM output
d---- 5/8/2011 3:37 AM static
-a--- 5/8/2011 3:36 AM 485 create-static-files.ps1
But I could not figure out how to do the mkcd function.

Answer 1

Something like this should work.
Function mkcd {
mkdir $args[0]
cd $args[0]
}
This is just an ordinary function in powershell. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347712.aspx for more.

Answer 2

You may want also manage exception directory already exists and also return the directory object to your caller:
Function mkcd {
if(!(Test-Path -path $args[0])) {
mkdir $args[0]
}
cd $args[0] -passthru
}