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Marco atzeri wrote:
> you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a
> windows path ...

On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces.

$ cygpath -sm "$PROGRAMFILES"


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