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Move only mp3s within multiple directories to a single folder

This solution from SO works but unfortunately some of my mp3s have quotes (') in their names which results in the following error:

xargs: unterminated quote

Is it possible to adapt the following command to allow it to copy all mp3s, regardless of the quotes in their file name?

find . -name "*.mp3" | xargs -I {} cp -iv "{}" /my/dir

Thank you.

Solution 
  • find . -name "*.mp3" -exec cp -iv {} /my/dir \;