Woah, that's a long title.
So, just wanted to share the little shell script I use for setting up local development sites in a one-liner in the terminal. Be advised that I don't usually write shell scripts, so if you are a pro, and I have made some obvious mistakes, please feel free to give improvements in the comment section. Also, while i have been writing this post, i noticed that Klausi also has a kick ass tutorial and shell script on his blog. Be sure to read that as well, since the article is much more thorough than mine. But since my script is for those even more lazy, I decided to post it anyway.
The idea I had was pretty simple. I constantly have the need to set up a fresh, working copy of drupal in various versions with various modules, i.e for bug testing, prototyping, or just testing a patch on a fresh install. While drush make and installation profiles are both awesome tools for a lot of things, I wanted to install Drupal without making make files and writing .info files, and at the same time generate the virtual host and edit my hosts file. And why not also download and enable the modules i need. For a while I used just

$ drush si

(site-install) on a specified directory for flushing and starting over, but part since I have little experience in writing shell scripts (I said that, right?), I thought, what the hey, let's give that a go. Fun to learn new stuff.
On my computer the script is called vhost, but since this is not a describing name, and the script is all about being lazy, let's call it lazy-d for the rest of the article (lazy-d for lazy drupal. Also, it is kind of catchy).

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