The xargs command is commonly used with find to perform a command on each of files that match the search criteria, by piping the results of the find command into xargs.
| find ./ -type f -print | xargs -i mv -f {} ./newdir |
This will move all files from the current directory to newdir. Each result from the find command replaces the {} characters before mv is called.
So, if the find command returns…
file1.txt
file2.txt
…then the following is executed:
mv -f file1.txt ./newdir
mv -f file2.txt ./newdir
Reference: Using the xargs Command
