How to move or copy files listed by find command in unix

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I have a list of certain files that I see using the command below  but how can I copy those files listed into another folder  say   test   find   -mtime 1 -exec du -hc

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If you re using GNU find   find   -mtime 1 -exec cp -t   test         This works as well as piping the output into xargs while avoiding the pitfalls of doing so  it handles embedded spaces and newlines without having to use find     -print0   xargs -0

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This is the best way for me  cat filename tsv        while read FILENAME     do     sudo find  PATH FROM   -name  quot  FILENAME quot  -maxdepth 4 -exec cp       PATH TO           done

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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  lt Path gt   lt Conditions gt    xargs cp -t  lt copy file path gt  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  lt path gt   lt condition gt  -exec cp       lt copy path gt      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

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Adding to Eric Jablow s answer  here is a possible solution  it worked for me - linux mint 14  nadia   find  path to search  -type f -name  glob-to-find-files    xargs cp -t  target path    You can refer to  How can I use xargs to copy files that have spaces and quotes in their names   as well

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find  PATH TO YOUR FILES -name NAME EXT -exec cp -rfp     DST DIR

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