Your logic is making no sense.

You say if there is no htaccess, the copy only an htaccess.

Then you say, if there is no .htaccess, you want to copy .htaccess *and* htpasswd.

You have two conflicting requirements. The code below lets you do is basically what probably want - you can do something if there is an htaccess file, and something else if there is not. You can run the code below safely - it only echo's what it would do. Remove the echo's when you need it to work.

I don't get what where your AuthUserFile grepping comes into this at all.

What i am going to do is:

grep all AuthUserFile within the existing htaccesses. these i am going to rename to .htpasswd.

This way i can run the following commands:

find . -type d -exec sh -c 'test -e {}/.htaccess || cp -i /path/to/.htaccess {}' \;

and then:

find . -type d -exec sh -c 'test -e {}/.htpasswd || cp -i /path/to/.htpasswd {}' \;

This is the quick and dirty solution!

thank you i am gonna try it this way