Recursive move files of specific type to a specific path

Question

In ~/my/path, I want to move all files that contain string "(J)" and have file type of ".foo" to ~/my/path/j

I'm trying:

[me ~/my/path]$ find -type f -name "*(J)*.foo" -print0 | xargs mv -0 j/

No luck :(

Answer 1

How about

find ~/my/path -type f -name "*(J)*.foo" -exec mv {} ~/my/path/j \;

Answer 2

The -0 needs to go right after the xargs.

find -type f -name "*(J)*.foo" -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} mv \{\} j/

By the way, posting an error message or other details instead of "no luck" helps diagnose problems.

Answer 3

How about

mv `find -name *(J)*.foo` -t /my/path