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find a file

i am looking for a certain file called 'Class3a.gif' on my machine. i have no clue where it is or what directory it is in. what is the command to search my entire machine, including every folder, for that certain file?

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your looking for the find command. to read more about it, man find
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find / -name filename.ext -print
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If you're not doing this as root - then might pay to pipe std error to null so you don't get pages of permissions denied.
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