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In general this has a downside effect: since find searches recursively into subdirectories, it may find files with the same name. In this case the files are overwritten into the destination directory. To avoid that you can use the --backup option of cp in order to keep the different files with a suffix added to their name. Example:
No, do not use that. Never use a substitution pattern to insert lines of text from a file or command into another command. Shell word-splitting will break up any entries with whitespace in their names, and globbing characters might possibly expand, and you'll end up with errors and possibly worse.
It's basically the same problem as this. Unless you can tell your command to operate on filenames directly, you really need to use a while+read loop or similar.
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