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These path shenanigans get even trickier when invoking WSL or Cygwin.

Here's an alias from my Cygwin .bashrc (which took me way too long to figure out) where both the *nix and Windows style paths are invoked:

alias ms='/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe -A -i 'C:\Users\me\.ssh\mm-id_rsa' me@myserver'

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Or MSYS2. Other tricky variants is using Windows commands (which typically use '/' as option marker), e.g.

  $  tasklist /V
  ERROR: argument/option invalid - "C:/msys64/V"

or the time I wanted to use xmlstarlet and any xpath expression was interpreted as Windows path :(

At least for MSYS2 the environment variable MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXC can be used to prevent conversion. https://www.msys2.org/docs/filesystem-paths/#process-argumen...

I believe it’s because it’s executing a Windows program (ssh.exe) located in Cygwin’s mount for your C: drive and that program therefore expects Windows-style paths.

I know now :)

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