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I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that patch,
but it looks to me as if everything you want is already present:

  cygpath --help

states

  -i, --ignore          ignore missing argument

which outputs nothing if you pass it an empty argument (or even without
any further argument at all).

Isn't that ( cygpath -mli "$possibly_empty_var" ) what you need?

--
m0vie


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