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

Question

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 -ex         


        

Answer 1

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 ...).