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Use find + sed + cp to find files and copy them to a directory with a different name

I'm trying to copy a bunch of files named folder.jpg into a folder. The problem is because all the files are named the same thing, I need to rename them in the process. I know I can probably do it ...
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Passing parsed output of sed to find (in this direction)

Well, I think you can find dozens of questions on this platform how to pipe find output to sed, but I haven't found anything for the reverse direction so far. What I want to do is modify my input, and ...
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Append line to many files

I want to add some text to over 200,000 files I am trying this find . -name *.txt -print | xargs -I % echo "hello world" >> % But nothing is happening. When i run find . -name *.txt it work ...
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find & sed (search and replace)

I'm using the following command on my mac: $find . -name “*.java” -exec sed -i ’s/foo/bar/g’ {} \; and it seems to have no effect. I have two files in the directory that end in .java, which both ...
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Why does this awk command not play as well with find as sed does?

I am very much a newbie at Unix/Linux command line stuff, and mostly get to where I'm going by copying, pasting, and modifying code I find on the internet. Just mentioning that in hopes people will ...
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Deleting Lines Containing a Specified String in Different Files

Suppose there are two files in web/ named foo.php and bar.php. The 1st line of foo.php is "sdajgeSTRINGdsad" and the 10th line of bar.php is "gdfhu98324STRING". The task is to first locate these two ...
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Directory filenames with sed with whitespaces

I'm working on a script and I'm stuck, even with the help of teh googles. Here's my code: for FOLDER in `find . -type d | sed "s#^.#$(pwd)#" | sed 's/ /\ /g'` do echo "$FOLDER" done This will ...