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Why won't GNU find work recursively on Windows 7?

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I have the full gnuwin32 installation on my Win7 box. From the shell (cmd.exe), I can execute from a directory and get a list of all the files recursively. What I am trying to do is find all files with filenames ending in . I would expect one of these to work: but the first one only gives me one re…

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c:\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe .

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I never found a good answer regarding anything I can do to make gnuwin32 find work, but I found this answer with a workaround. Specifically, using the nearly-decade-old find.exe from UnxUtils seems to work.

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Why won't GNU find work recursively on Windows 7?

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