How To Pass Find results to CP such that File Names with Spaces work [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to copy files with specific attachments to a different directory with their relative paths preserved. From the original top path I am calling:

cp --parents `find . -name \*.pdf -print` /new_path/

I believe this works; however only if the file found has no spaces in the name.

I also tried:

cp --parents `find . -name \*.pdf -print0` /new_path/

This doesn't work obviously because without the new line character cp receives the wrong name.

Is it possible to surround the find result with quotes ?

Answer 1

Try this:

find . -name \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -Ifoo cp --parents foo /new_path/

Or

find . -name \*.pdf -exec cp --parents {} /new_path/ \;