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[libcxx] Update docs regarding the need for bash/posix tools for tests on Windows. NFC.

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After 39bbfb7726, bash is no longer
a hard requirement.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101779
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@ -98,7 +98,10 @@ CMake + ninja (MSVC)
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Building with ninja is required for development to enable tests.
Running the tests also requires a Bash shell and Python to be available.
A couple of tests require Bash to be available, and a couple dozens
of tests require other posix tools (cp, grep and similar - LLVM's tests
require the same). Without those tools the vast majority of tests
can still be ran successfully.
If Git for Windows is available, that can be used to provide the bash
shell by adding the right bin directory to the path, e.g.