How to execute find command with Powershell

find.exe in Windows is not the equivalent of find in linux.

The equivalent of find [startpath] in PowerShell would be:

Get-ChildItem [startpath] -Name

and in cmd.exe, it would be:

dir /B [startpath]

For an equivalent of:

find foo -type f

... I use:

Get-Children foo -Name -Recurse -File | % { $_ -replace "\\", "/" }

Use the FullName attribute, otherwise it will not show the full name if the path is long:

(Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\dist\work' -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue' -Filter "objects").FullName C:\dist\work\bam-client\.git\objects C:\dist\work\bam-extras\.git\objects :

If you want to search recursively down the directory tree using wildcards (a very common pattern when using find), try:

Get-ChildItem -Filter *.zip -Recurse $pwd