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The sed does the filtering, you should be able to see how to adapt this to your own requirements

So I want to duplicate init.php while changing the value of a flag inside it for each copy

cat init.php | sed s/flag=2/flag=3/ > dir3/init.php
cat init.php | sed s/flag=2/flag=4/ > dir4/init.php

If you see the first comment Bawdo suggests rightly that this is a UUOC

sed “s/flag=2/flag=4/”  init.php > dir4/init.php

I’ve always underused sed unfortunately

which then can written (zsh)

for i in {3,4}; sed s/flag=2/flag=$i/ init.php > dir$i/init.php

sed stands for stream editor and therefore cannot do an in place edit this is where perl thrives

perl -p -i -e ’s/\surname\b/form_surname/g’    *.php

or safer

perl -p -i.bak -e ’s/\b23\b/34/g’  fred.php  (creates a backup of each file eg fred.bak)

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