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On 02/01/2013 2:17, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> 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\\"

I was incorrectly quoting the path. This works:

$ cygpath.exe -a 'c:\Users\All Users\'
/cygdrive/c/Users/All Users/

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