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The unix command to search for files is find.

You can use the command man find to get more information. The usual form is the following.

find  &lt;starting folder&gt;  -name  &lt;file name&gt;  -print


For example, if you are looking for all mp3 files in the current folder and all nested folders, use the following command.

find  .  -name  "*.mp3"  -print


Sometimes you can get a lot of "permission denied" or other meaningless error messages. If so, then you can remove all error messages by appending a 2&gt;/dev/null to the end of the command. See the example below.

find  .  -name  "*.mp3"  -print  2&gt;/dev/null