[FYI] Possible bash bug.

[Earnie Boyd]

This isn't Cygwin specific; but covers all cases of bash.

mkdir /foo
case "/foo" in [/\\]*) echo 1;; esac
case "/foo" in [\\/]*) echo 2;; esac

The first test case fails to find the directory /foo.
The second test case finds /foo and echos 2.

Regards,

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