I think this post is a little bit confused, since it talks about Bash in Windows, but I've seen no evidence that Bash supports backslash as a path separator in

I think this post is a little bit confused, since it talks about Bash in Windows, but I've seen no evidence that Bash supports backslash as a path separator in Windows. I agree it's unfortunate that backslash paths are still around, but I guarantee you that won't be the most annoying issue with running Linux userspace tools on Windows.