Two tiny Cygwin shell scripts may be of use. Each script has a single active line, which I include here (to try these from the command line, of course replace $1 with your desired argument):
1. To quickly find files and directories in "My Documents" and Desktop (down to a certain depth): find "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USER/Desktop" \ "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USER/My Documents" \ -maxdepth 3 | grep "$1" 2. To open an Explorer window in a specified directory (given in Cygwin style), or to open a document in the proper Windows application: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/explorer `cygpath -w "$1"` Rex -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/