diff --git a/bash_aliases b/bash_aliases
index 72c9b4c..46dd27a 100644
--- a/bash_aliases
+++ b/bash_aliases
@@ -75,4 +75,6 @@ alias gw="grunt watch --debug"
 ginit() { grunt init:$@ ;}
 
 # Load external aliases
-source ~/dotfiles/includes/root.sh
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+source ~/dotfiles/includes/root.sh
+source ~/dotfiles/includes/functions.sh
+ 
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diff --git a/includes/functions.sh b/includes/functions.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be1cbbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/includes/functions.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Create a new directory and enter it
+function mkd() {
+	mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"
+}
+
+# Get gzipped file size
+function gz() {
+	echo "Original size (bytes): "
+	cat "$1" | wc -c
+	echo "Gzipped size (bytes): "
+	gzip -c "$1" | wc -c
+}
+
+# Test if HTTP compression (RFC 2616 + SDCH) is enabled for a given URL.
+# Send a fake UA string for sites that sniff it instead of using the Accept-Encoding header. (Looking at you, ajax.googleapis.com!)
+function httpcompression() {
+	encoding="$(curl -LIs -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5 Gecko' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,compress,sdch' "$1" | grep '^Content-Encoding:')" && echo "$1 is encoded using ${encoding#* }" || echo "$1 is not using any encoding"
+}
+
+# Escape UTF-8 characters into their 3-byte format
+function escape() {
+	printf "\\\x%s" $(printf "$@" | xxd -p -c1 -u)
+	echo # newline
+}
+
+# Decode \x{ABCD}-style Unicode escape sequences
+function unidecode() {
+	perl -e "binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8'); print \"$@\""
+	echo # newline
+}
+
+# Get a character’s Unicode code point
+function codepoint() {
+	perl -e "use utf8; print sprintf('U+%04X', ord(\"$@\"))"
+	echo # newline
+}
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