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A few programs/libraries on windows demand windows only paths. So from a git bash terminal I had to do this:

$ export FOO="d:\\path\\to\\folder"

Is there an alternative to this?

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I have seen used in the past (for instance by Git itself) the cygpath command.

Convert Unix and Windows format paths, or output system path information

The -u and -w options indicate whether you want a conversion to UNIX (POSIX) format (-u) or to Windows format (-w).

propatience points out in the comments to the example "cygpath -u 'c:\cygwin\cygbuild\build.mak'", using single quote.

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