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25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp does not work on Windows even after installing GNU find and grep

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#23453: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp does not work on Windows even after installing GNU find and grep
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 22:49:11 +0300

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 19:39:45 +0000
> 
> The problem is that the user PATH env var comes at a lower order of precendence than the system value of
> the PATH env var. So first the admin controlled directories come in PATH and then the user added directories
> come.

You need to change the system Path, not the user Path.

Alternatively, rename the MS find.exe to something else.

> By I used the brute-force method below just so that the correct find.exe and grep.exe are found by emacs:
> 
> (setq exec-path '("C:/Users/kmodi/Dropbox/Portable Software/ezwinports/bin"
> "c:/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath"

No, don't do that, it won't work (as you have found out).  Emacs
sometimes invokes commands through the shell, which doesn't know about
exec-path.  This way lies madness.  You should have your PATH and the
corresponding Emacs variables in sync.

(This is all basic Windows setup, nothing related to Emacs, btw.)

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