Moving to the Desktop

[Charles Wilson]

 > Can anybody help with a single keyboard command that would move the
 > user to the Desktop, usable across all systems?

Well, the following THREE commands will work on any system, and then you 
can easily reference the user's desktop:

mkdir /desktop
foo=`cygpath -D -w`
mount -u [-b|-t] "$foo" /desktop

now "cd /desktop" Just Works(tm).

--
Chuck

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