Question

I am using Linux and would like to replace all files containing the string 000000 with an existing file /home/user/offblack.png but keep the existing filename. I’ve been working at this for a while with various combinations of -exec and xargs but no luck. So far I have:

 find | grep 000000

Which does list all the files I want to change fine. How do I copy and replace these files with my existing offblack.png file?

Answer 1

find . -type f | grep 000000 | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0i+ cp ~/offblack.png "+"