Actually, you can process the find command output in a copy command in two ways:
If the find command's output doesn't contain any space, i.e if the filename doesn't contain a space in it, then you can use:
Syntax:
find <Path> <Conditions> | xargs cp -t <copy file path>
Example:
find -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cp -t inner/
But our production data files might contain spaces, so most of time this command is effective:
Syntax:
find <path> <condition> -exec cp '{}' <copy path> \;
Example
find -mtime -1 -type f -exec cp '{}' inner/ \;
In the second example, the last part, the semi-colon is also considered as part of the find command, and should be escaped before pressing Enter. Otherwise you will get an error something like:
find: missing argument to `-exec'