good to see you got something that works. but you're mixing your methods in this example. you're getting the return value you want in  $fullpath, but you're not using the File::Find module to do it. instead, you're using the backquotes, which executes an external program and returns the output as a single string containing all lines.
so, you've gone to the trouble of loading all these lines of code, only to ignore them. perhaps you should remove the use line, it's unneccessary in your example.

as an alternative, for an example of a 100% Pure Perl solution, try: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;

# the dir you're 'find'ing from
my $dir = shift || '.';

# the file you're looking for
my $file = 'blah';

# the results you want
my @results;

# the function you perform on each find value
sub looking_for_file
{
    # push full filename to an array if file and name is $file
    push(@results, $File::Find::name) if(-f $_ && $_ eq $file);
};

# the result you want, using File::Find::find()
#   (not the external 'find' program)
find \&looking_for_file, $dir;

# print your results
print("my results are: @results\n");

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In this example, you get an array (@array) with the values of each file found named 'blah'. unlike also, this should run on just about any platform.

I know my example was a bit lengthy, so here's a shorter version: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;

# the shorter version
my @results;
find sub{-f $_ && $_ eq 'blah' && 
    push(@results,$File::Find::name)}, shift || '.';
print("my results are: @results\n");

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