Use xargs to mv a directory from find results into another directory

Question

I have the following command:

find . -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv {} /path/to/target-dir \\;

This will move the directory founded to another

Answer 1

find ./ -maxdepth 1 -name "some-dir" -type d -print0 | xargs -0r mv -t x/

find: with option -print0, the output will end with '\0';

xargs: with option -0, it will split args by '\0' but whitespace, -r means no-run-if-empty, so you will not get any errors if find didn't get any output. (The -r is a GNU extension.)

I usually use this in scripts when I'm not sure if the target files exist or not.