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How can I search the whole drive for a file? Like dir something.* /s did on DOS.

It's a bit longer in Unix.

find / -name thefileImlookingfor.txt -print

The "/" after "find" indicates the starting point of the search. If you start at "/", you get the whole file system.

Since the display here doesn't seem to permit extra spaces to emphasize separation, note that there are spaces after "find", "/", "-name", and the name of the file.

Hi,

You could use the 'man dir' to understand the command for UNIX/Linux.

You could do a 'dir -a -R / |grep -i thefileImlookingfor.txt'. When you issue the command then all the instances of 'thefileImlookingfor.txt' will be presented. Not the best way but you asked.

'man' is your friend!

Thank you both!