Don’t know if Bash has something similar, but I use Oh My ZSH and we have a good one for cd:
cd .. # one directory up
cd ... # two directories up
cd .... # three directories up and so on...
Come to the dark side, we have cookies and fancy plugins. 
The only things in mine at the moment are shortcuts to switch between heroku accounts, some code to set the iterm tab colour and this journal command I stole from somewhere that lets me create a daily journal on my iCloud drive.
My .gitconfig has a ton of shortcuts though I again stole from somewhere that have made working with branches a lot easier.
journal() {
mkdir -p ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/journal/`date +%Y`
$EDITOR ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/journal/`date +%Y`/`date +%m-%d`
}
alias j=journal
There’s shopt autocd. To quote the manpage:
autocd If set, a command name that is the name of a directory is executed as if it were the argument to the cd command.
This option is only used by interactive shells.
So for instance, running .. will put you one directory up. Doesn’t work for multiple parent directories though.
There’s also other fancy options here like cdspell or dirspell. I never really looked much into all these options but I believe you can customize bash quite a lot using them 
This is how my .bash_profile file looks:
# /etc/skel/.bash_profile
# This file is sourced by bash for login shells. The following line
# runs your .bashrc and is recommended by the bash info pages.
[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
Well … hello from Gentoo/Funtoo world 
Now seriously here is a bit of my bash code (can’t show all):
if [[ $- != *i* ]] ; then
# Shell is non-interactive. Be done now!
return
fi
# git
export EDITOR="nano"
export VISUAL=$EDITOR
# asdf base
. $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh
. $HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash
# Erlang
export ERL_AFLAGS="-kernel shell_history enabled"
export KERL_BUILD_DOCS=yes
# Elixir
ASDF_CURRENT_ELIXIR=`asdf current elixir | awk -F"(" '{print $1;}'`
ASDF_MIX_DIR="~/.asdf/installs/elixir/$ASDF_CURRENT_ELIXIR/.mix"
export PATH="$PATH:$ASDF_MIX_DIR:$ASDF_MIX_DIR/escripts/"
# Secrets
# …
# Private projects data
# …
# Aliases
alias git_branch="git symbolic-ref --short HEAD"
alias git_head_revision="git rev-parse HEAD"
alias git_number_of_changed_files="git diff --shortstat | xargs | grep -Po '\d+' | sed -n 1p"
alias git_number_of_deleted_files="git ls-files --deleted --exclude-standard | wc -l"
alias git_number_of_deletions="git diff --shortstat | xargs | grep -Po '\d+' | sed -n 3p"
alias git_number_of_insertions="git diff --shortstat | xargs | grep -Po '\d+' | sed -n 2p"
alias git_number_of_modified_files="git ls-files --exclude-standard --modified | wc -l"
alias git_number_of_others_files="git ls-files --exclude-standard --others | wc -l"
alias git_origin_url="git config --get remote.origin.url"
alias git_repo="git_origin_url | sed -E 's/^git@|^git:\/\/|^https:\/\//\\\\e[93m/' | sed 's/:/ \\\\e[94m/' | sed 's/\// \\\\e[96m/' | sed -E 's/.git$/\\\\e[39m/'"
# …
# Prompt
set_prompt_vars() {
FULL_DATE=$(date '+\e[38;5;172m%-V\e[39m|\e[38;5;143m%-j \e[39m\e[1m%A\e[21m, \e[96m%_d %B %Y\e[39m - \e[95m%-H:%M:%S:%N \e[93m%Z\e[39m \e[38;5;244m(%-::z)\e[39m')
GIT_INFO=""
if git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree > /dev/null 2>&1
then
GIT_INFO="\
$(git_repo)\n\
\e[95m$(git_branch)\e[97m ($(git_head_revision)): \
\e[93m$(git_number_of_changed_files)C\e[39m-\
\e[91m$(git_number_of_deleted_files)D\e[39m-\
\e[95m$(git_number_of_modified_files)M\e[39m-\
\e[92m$(git_number_of_others_files)N\e[39m\
\e[97m | \
\e[92m+$(git_number_of_insertions)\e[39m/\
\e[91m-$(git_number_of_deletions)\e[39m\n"
fi
PROMPT_LINE="\e[32m\w \e[34m|> \e[97m"
export PS1="\n$FULL_DATE\n$GIT_INFO$PROMPT_LINE"
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=set_prompt_vars
# and so on …
For sure I have removed lots of parts as it’s (at least not yet) right time to show them + it’s a really long file (1200+ lines spitted into multiple script files with custom functions, aliases and so on …). 
Rest of my ~/.bashrc for now is still top secret. 
I’m using Ubuntu and here is some of my bash setup.
# auto check dir
shopt -s autocd
# Run my custom python3 modules located at "/home/kurisu/.scripts/python3"
# $1 is the script name and the remaining params are its optional params
mypy3() {
python3 /home/kurisu/.scripts/python3/$1 $2 $3 $4
}
# Enable iex command history
export ERL_AFLAGS="-kernel shell_history enabled"
# Exporting Env vars located at ~/.env
for file in "$(find $HOME/.env -maxdepth 1 -name '*.sh' -print -quit)"; do source $file; done
# All Elixir/Phoenix stuff
ex="/home/kurisu/projets/elixir"
alias srv="mix phx.server"
alias isrv="iex -S mix phx.server"
alias creat="mix ecto.create"
alias migen="mix ecto.gen.migration"
alias migrate="mix ecto.migrate"
alias drop="mix ecto.drop"
alias setup="mix ecto.setup"
alias rollb="mix ecto.rollback"
alias seeds="mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs"
alias ctext="mix phx.gen.context"
alias html="mix phx.gen.html"
alias schm="mix phx.gen.schema"
alias depg="mix deps.get"
alias depc="mix deps.compile"
alias routes="mix phx.routes"
alias gtxt="mix gettext.extract --merge"
# Secret adventure :)
alias dunnet="emacs -batch -l dunnet"
I sometimes have to search for a string within a directory and the subdirectories. In these moments I rely on this little fellow:
regrep () {
MY_PATH=${2:-"."} # this sets path to either the second parameter or defaults to "."
find $MY_PATH -type f -regex ".*" | xargs grep -H -c $1 | grep -v 0$
}
Looks stupid, but it gets the job done (and even with line number 
)
I use ZSH and in my ~/.zshrc file I use:
For the plugins in the folder ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/
plugins=(
git
zsh-syntax-highlighting
zsh-autosuggestions
)
#I like the POWERLEVEL9K
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
source ~/powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme
And I installed Colors gem and added this alias:
# COLORLS
#source $(dirname $(gem which colorls))/tab_complete.sh
alias lc="colorls"
alias lca="colorls -a"
alias lcd="colorls -d"
alias lcf="colorls -f"
alias lcsd="colorls --sort-dirs"
alias lcsf="colorls --sort-files"
alias lcl="colorls -l"
alias lcr="colorls --report"
alias lct="colorls --tree"
alias lcgs="colorls --gs"
alias lcgst="colorls --gs --tree"
and
# ASDF
. $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh
. $HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash
# Enable history in IEX through Erlang(OTP)
export ERL_AFLAGS="-kernel shell_history enabled"
# Open command files for Atom app
export ELIXIR_EDITOR="sh /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/atom.sh"
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"
# for direnv to be activated it needs to be hooked into the shell.
eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"
and for commit something I like to do this:
$ gaa && gcmsg " \
Chapter 1: My Sample Commit"
because on plugins of the oh-my-zsh I already have this alias:
alias gaa='git add --all'
alias gcmsg='git commit -m'
and when I want to comment I just put the gaa and the zsh-autosuggestons shows me the last commit and with the arrow right I have all builded then for clean the last line on mac os I use the CTRL + U and erases the name of the last commit. And so stays just the gaa && gcmsg " \ with a other line for just comment. For me it’s very usefull.
Not a whole bunch…
bashrc
alias rm='rm -i'
alias emacs='/usr/bin/emacs'
alias dockerk='docker kill $(docker ps -aq) > /dev/null 2>&1'
alias dockerr='docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq) > /dev/null 2>&1'
alias dcp='docker-compose ps'
alias dcu='docker-compose up -d postgres kafka zookeeper'
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
mh, good question 
I assume it did not work for a specific situation, then I got used to do it by find (I vaguely remeber that this snippet was part of a bigger solution once).
By looking at my code, I realized another embarassing mistake - it is grep -n of course, not grep -c 
.
Edit:
I tried a little and I think what I did not like about grep -R is that it also give the matching line (with -o only the match). I just simply want a list of occurences with path and line number.
Therefore my new solution is this:
regrep () {
grep -nR $1 ${2:-"."} | cut -d: -f1 -f2
}