How do I limit the results of the command find in bash?

Question

The following command:

find . -name \"file2015-0*\" -exec mv {} .. \\;

Affects about 1500 results. One by one they move a previous level.

Answer 1

You can do this:

 find . -name "file2015-0*" | head -400 | xargs -I filename mv  filename ..

If you want to simulate what it does use echo:

 find . -name "file2015-0*" | head -400 | xargs -I filename echo mv  filename ..