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> > bash... maybe cygpath, seems to be doing something weird:

Weird - yes.  But buggy - no.

> >
> > $ cygpath -u '\\someuncpath\someshare'
> > //someuncpath/someshare
> > $ echo `cygpath -u '\\someuncpath\someshare'`
> > /cygdrive/c/someuncpath/someshare
> > $ # what's going on here
> > $ echo "`cygpath -u '\\someuncpath\someshare'`"

In a double-quoted `` context, \\ represents one \, and \s
is undefined.  Just because this is nested within a ''
inside the `` does not make it a single-quoted context.
The correct quoting would be:

echo "`cygpath -u '\\\\someuncpath\\someshare'`"

You are better off using $(), with saner quoting rules:
echo "$(cygpath -u '\\someuncpath\someshare')"

[disclaimer - I'm typing this on a machine without bash,
so I was unable to test the above; hopefully I got it
all correct]

-- 
Eric Blake

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