Hi, Maybe I'm too stupid to understand the documentation, and maybe examples in the docu are so complex, and I need simple thing. I'm trying to find some specific file using File::Finder. Something like: myfile.txt I do not know in which directory is that file. In case I find it, I'd like to get the full path to it. Other case - undef (or 0). I managed to get the full list of all files with File::Finder 
sub FindFile
{
    my $file = shift(@_);
    my @directories = @_;
    my $pathtofile;
    my @allfiles;
    unshift(@directories,"./");
    
    @allfiles = File::Finder->in(@directories);
    
    return $pathtofile;
};

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I tried to use File::Finder->name($file)->in(@directories) but this gives me only 1 or 0 (if file is there or not). Of course, when I have this big @allfiles list, I can use foreach and go through and check which one is it, but I hoped if there is already wrapper for File::Find, it should have such search type somehow build in. Greetings TheMarty

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