How to use xp cmd dir to find file?

Question

There is a file named calender in my pc, i forget where it is.
I want to get the position of it with the dir command or some other command ?

dir c:\   | find "calender"   
find: ‘calender’: No such file or directory

Answer 1

Use the /s switch to search all directories:

 dir \calendar /s

If the filename is not exactly calendar, then you can use * as a wildcard (a placeholder for other stuff):

To search for files that start with calendar:

dir \calendar* /s

To search for files that have calendar anywhere in the name:

dir \*calendar* /s

And so on.

Also to remove all the information that DIR shows about the directory, such as file times etc, just use /b as it will leave the full path and nothing else.