Use xargs to mv a directory from find results into another directory
find, mv, shell, xargs
Solution
If you've got GNU `mv` (and `find` and `xargs`), you can use the `-t` option to `mv` (and `-print0` for `find` and `-0` for `xargs`):
find . -type d -mtime -0 -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /path/to/target-dir
Note that modern versions of `find` (compatible with POSIX 2008) support `+` in place of `;` and behave roughly the same as `xargs` without using `xargs`:
find . -type d -mtime -0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +
This makes `find` group convenient numbers of file (directory) names into a single invocation of the program. You don't have the level of control over the numbers of arguments passed to `mv` that `xargs` provides, but you seldom actually need that anyway. This still hinges on the `-t` option to GNU `mv`.
Problem
I have the following command: ``` find . -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv {} /path/to/target-dir \; ``` This will move the directory founded to another directory. How can I use `xargs` instead of `exec` to do the same thing.