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bash: find -exec and filenames

I’m using a find command to find a series of files all with the same name. I then want to append the contents of a text file to the bottom of each of those files that my find command located. I thought this would be straightforward enough but I can’t seem to get it to work right. Here is my command:

find . -type f -name 'my_file.php' -exec cat new_include.txt >> {} \;

When I run this using sudo, I get a permission denied error:

-bash: {}: Permission denied

If I su into the server and run it as root, I don’t get an error but none of the files actually update. Am I missing something here? (This is being done on a CentOS 6 server, if that makes a difference.)

Answer 1

I could not get this working with a single find command, but doing it sequentially worked:

for myFile in `find . -type f -name 'my_file.php' -print`
do 
    cat new_include.txt > ${myFile}
done