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    find / -name “MyFavoriteFile”

    Find is the actual command. The / is the start location. In this case, it means root of the drive, so find will search the entire volume. If you know the files is in a subdirectory, you can specify that. -name specifies to look for a name and then the filename must be in quote. Variables can be used like “*.txt”.

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