I'm running GNU Emacs on Windows 7 and was just wondering how to set up emacs so the "find-name-dired" command works. When I try using find-name-dired to recursively search for files I get this:
find . "(" -iname "*.tex" ")" -exec ls -ld {} ";"
File not found - "*.tex"
find exited abnormally with code 2 at Thu Feb 26 16:58:31
I'll add this solution here as modifying the PATH can have unwanted side effects elsewhere. To set the find program to the wanted find.exe, for example provided by git:
(setq find-program "c:/Git/usr/bin/find.exe")
(setq find-program "C:\\Users\\rnwol\\scoop\\shims\\find.exe")
Nov 6, 2019 at 12:20
Emacs relies on various Unix tools, including find. On Windows you can install a Unix-style shell such as Cygwin, or just install ports of the specific tools you need. There are several options - I'm currently using tools from ezwinports.
Whatever you choose, you'll need to make sure that the Unix find command is on the path ahead of Windows one. You can do that with environment variables before starting emacs, or add to the emacs exec-path.
find.exe is in the Program Files folder, the space in the command name can confuse emacs / Windows -- for me, doing (setq find-program "\"C:\\Program Files\\Git\\usr\\bin\\find.exe\"") works. (The key bit seemed to be getting the double quote characters passed down.)
Jan 7, 2022 at 12:51
findis part of theGNU findutils, which is generally runs on GNU systems (i.e. not Windows). You may need to look into Cygwin/MSYS.