Searching a file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,
I have a file named "Gautam" saved in my machine in some particular location.I want to find the exact location of the file in the file system by writting a command but i dont have any idea of what command would serve the needful for me.Please help me with the command.
Thank you

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use below command,
find / -name Gautam.*

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or

locate Gautam
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find / -name Gautam.*

in the above command what is the need of / as if i do

find -name Gautam.*

then also it works

Please explain

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have u tried the same without / from root?
/ means to look into dir and subdir also.