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Make it unique in the process. But this require sorting:

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | sort -zu | xargs -0 cp -t "$HOME/newdir"

Or if it's not about the generated files, try to use the -u-u option of cpcp.

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cp -ut "$HOME/newdir" 
 -u copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing

Make it unique in the process. But this require sorting:

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | sort -zu | xargs -0 cp -t "$HOME/newdir"

Or if it's not about the generated files, try to use the -u option of cp.

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cp -ut "$HOME/newdir"

Make it unique in the process. But this require sorting

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | sort -zu | xargs -0 cp -t "$HOME/newdir"

Or if it's not about the generated files, try to use the -u option of cp.

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cp -ut "$HOME/newdir" 
 -u copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing
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Make it unique in the process. But this require sorting:

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | sort -zu | xargs -0 cp -t "$HOME/newdir"

Or if it's not about the generated files, try to use the -u option of cp.

find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cp -ut "$HOME/newdir"