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Subject:	Re: cygpath not working properly when the windows path argument ends in backslash
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote:
> cygpath.exe -a "c:\Users\All Users"
> /cygdrive/c/Users/All Users
>
> cygpath.exe -a "c:\Users\All Users\"
>>
>
> Probably this trailing backslash is interpreted by shell, what to do about
> this?

Not probably, it is exactly that.

cygpath.exe -a "C:\\Users\\All Users\\"

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