Find all files from today recursively and copy them

Question

I want to find all *.pdf files recursively in directory /dir

In that dir there are specific files such as /dir/1/2.pdf [modified today], /dir/2/3.pdf [modified today], /dir/4/4.pdf [from yesterday]

IN that case I only want files that were modified today so: 2.pdf and 3.pdf

I also want to move those files to directory called /pdf/

I found that I can find all files in current directory modified today with:

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime -1

How can I find files from today in subdirectories and move them to /pdf/ dir?

Thanks!!! Adam

Answer 1

Remove -maxdepth 1 from your find command to find files in subdirectories and use -exec to move those to the target directory:

find /dir -type f -mtime -1 -exec mv {} /pdf \;