extending PATH on Windows?

[pyotr filipivich]

Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> on Fri, 19 Feb 2016
10:42:52 +0000 (UTC) typed in comp.lang.python  the following:
>pyotr filipivich <phamp at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> >       Windows (especially 7) search function is highly crippled. There is
>> >some command sequence that will open it up to looking at other file types
>> >and locations.
>> >
>> >http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-7-search-does-not-find-files-that-it/61b88d5e-7df7-4427-8a2e-82b801a4a746?auth=1
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks.  I've found it "simpler" to just open a command prompt, and
>> use DOS.
>
>How can one search for files with DOS?

cd %searchPathStart%
dir /s *.php
or variants.
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