One thing that annoys me about homestead is that I have to switch to the Homestead directory in order to use vagrant.
cd $HOMESTEAD_DIR;
vagrant up
Instead I made a little helper that takes out a step. Now I can just run
homestead up
Below is the script. I placed mine in ~/.bin/homestead
#!/bin/bash
ARGS="$@"
COMMAND="$1"
HOMESTEAD_DIR="$HOME/.homestead/Homestead"
cd $HOMESTEAD_DIR
case $COMMAND in
edit)
vi $HOME/.homestead/Homestead.yaml
;;
down)
vagrant halt
;;
*)
vagrant $ARGS
;;
esac