“find: paths must precede expression:” How do I specify a recursive search that also finds files in the current directory?

Question

I am having a hard time getting find to look for matches in the current directory as well as its subdirectories.

When I run find *test.c

Answer 1

I came across this question when I was trying to find multiple filenames that I could not combine into a regular expression as described in @Chris J's answer, here is what worked for me

find . -name one.pdf -o -name two.txt -o -name anotherone.jpg

-o or -or is logical OR. See Finding Files on Gnu.org for more information.

I was running this on CygWin.