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Inconsistent path separators when trying to list paths using doc --help --verbose on mingw #108864

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When using ./x.py doc --help --verbose (this probably happens for everything else that might list paths on mingw). I expected it to output a list of paths using just / or just \ as separator, instead I get

    ./x.py doc src/doc
    ./x.py doc src/doc/book
    ./x.py doc src/doc/edition-guide
    ./x.py doc src/doc/embedded-book
    ./x.py doc src/doc/nomicon
    ./x.py doc src/doc/reference
    ./x.py doc src/doc/rust-by-example
    ./x.py doc src/doc/rustc
    ./x.py doc src/doc/rustdoc
    ./x.py doc src/doc/style-guide
    ./x.py doc src/doc/unstable-book
    ./x.py doc src\librustdoc
    ./x.py doc src\rustdoc-json-types
    ./x.py doc src\tools\cargo
    ./x.py doc src\tools\cargo\crates\cargo-platform
    ./x.py doc src\tools\cargo\crates\cargo-test-macro
    ./x.py doc src\tools\cargo\crates\cargo-test-support
    ./x.py doc src\tools\cargo\crates\cargo-util
    ./x.py doc src\tools\cargo\crates\crates-io
    ./x.py doc src/tools/cargo/src/doc
    ./x.py doc src\tools\clippy
    ./x.py doc src/tools/clippy/book
    ./x.py doc src\tools\clippy\clippy_lints
    ./x.py doc src\tools\clippy\clippy_utils
    ./x.py doc src\tools\clippy\declare_clippy_lint
    ./x.py doc src/tools/error_index_generator
    ./x.py doc src\tools\miri
    ./x.py doc src\tools\miropt-test-tools
    ./x.py doc src\tools\rustdoc
    ./x.py doc src\tools\rustfmt
    ./x.py doc src\tools\rustfmt\config_proc_macro
    ./x.py doc src\tools\tidy
    ./x.py doc src/tools/unstable-book-gen
    ./x.py doc standalone

in addition, just copypasting those that use backslashes don't work out of the box as they are treated as escapes by bash. Ideally, we would use all slashes or all backslashes and double the backslashes so that the line can be directly copypasted into the terminal

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