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 is not really a good tool for this. I imagine you want to move all subdirectories into another directory. find will output things like

./a
./a/b
./a/b/c
./a/b/c/d

After ./a gets moved first, you'll just get errors about 'no such file or directory' all the subdirs.

You should just use mv */ /another/place -- the trailing slash on the wildcard restricts the expansion to only dirs.