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I'm trying to run this script:

----------------mkdirhier.sh start-------------------
newline='
'
IFS=$newline

case ${1--} in
-*) echo >&2 "mkdirhier: usage: mkdirhier directory ..."; exit 1
esac

status=
echo $directory
for directory
do
	case $directory in
	'')
		echo >&2 "mkdirhier: empty directory name"
		status=1
		continue;;
	*"$newline"*)
		echo >&2 "mkdirhier: directory name contains a newline: 
\`\`$directory''"
		status=1
		continue;;
	///*) prefix=/
	      echo prefix: $prefix;; # See Posix 2.3 "path".
	//*) prefix=//
	echo prefix: $prefix;;
	/*) prefix=/
	echo prefix: $prefix;;
	-*) prefix=./
	echo prefix: $prefix;;
	*) prefix=
	echo prefix: $prefix;;
	esac

	IFS=/
	set x $directory
	case $2 in
	    */*)	# IFS parsing is broken
		IFS=' '
		set x `echo $directory | tr / ' '`
		;;
	esac
	IFS=$newline
	shift

	for filename
	do
		path=$prefix$filename
		prefix=$path/
		shift

		test -d "$path" || {
			paths=$path
			for filename
			do
				if [ "$filename" != "." ]; then
					path=$path/$filename
					paths=$paths$newline$path
				fi
			done

			mkdir $paths || status=$?

			break
		}
	done
  done

exit $status
----------------mkdirhier.sh end--------------------

Input: ./mkdirhier.sh "/home/jgriffin/test/level1/level2" >& out.txt

Here's the output:
prefix: /
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/jgriffin': No such host or network path
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/jgriffin/test': No such host or network 
path
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/jgriffin/test/level1': No such host or 
network path
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/jgriffin/test/level1/level2': No such 
host or network path

Why does Cygwin append a extra backslash to the path?

Thanks,
Joseph

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