From cygwin, how do you define an alias to get to windows "My Documents"

Question

From the command line, I can get to My Documents by "cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/myusername/My\ Documents". The space in the file name must be preceded by a backslash. However when I define an alias (myfiles) in my .bashrc file, source the .bashrc file and then type "cd $myfiles", cygwin says "too many arguments". What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Did you try to quote the variable?

cd "$myfiles"