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I have several .env.sample files in my project directory. And I want to copy them to the .env by preserving the relative path.

before

.env.sample
apps
  -- app
  -- .env.sample

after

.env.sample
.env
apps
  -- app
  -- .env.sample
  -- .env

I already tried something like this:

find . -name .env.sample -exec cp {} $(echo {} | awk -F.sample '{print $1}') \;

But it doesn't work. The second part of the cp command doesn't work as I expected. Maybe something about the escaping special character is needed.

Any command that could do the job would be appreciated. And I can learn something new about bash if someone can explain what the problem is in my approach.

Ali Shabani
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Something like:

find . -name .env.sample -execdir sh -c 'cp -- "$1" "${1%.*}"' _ {} +
Jetchisel
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