How to find certain files and move them to a new directory in the same command?

Question

So I was looking around and all I have found is how to do this only if the directory is already made, which is this:

find source -name '*.z' -exec cp {} destination \;

But how can I make a new directory where I want to send these files in the same command? This is what I have tried but with no success:

find source -name '*.z' -exec cp {} | mkdir newDirectory \;

Answer 1

One option is to use the install command instead of cp. It has an option to create all of the leading directories.

find source -name '*.z' -exec install -D {} dest \;

Answer 2

You can't pipe data to mkdir that way. You could do something like this:

find source -name '*.z' -exec sh -c 'mkdir -p newDirectory && cp "$@" newDirectory' _ {} +

or (assuming file names not containing newlines)

find source -name '*.z' | while IFS= read -r foo; do 
   mkdir -p newDirectory;
   cp "$foo" newDirectory;
done 

or if you only want to create one directory, so the name is always the same:

mkdir newDirectory; find source -name '*.z' -exec cp {} newDirectory \;