How to limit the number of results from find?

Question

I would like to do something like:

find ./ -name "*.jpg" -nbresult 50 -exec cp {} /50randomsjpgfrommyharddrive

I can use head and xargs, but with -print0, head doesn't work any more.

Answer 1

GNU head has an option called -z for changing the line terminator to NUL, which can be used for this task as shown below.

find -name '*.jpg' -print0 \
| head -z -n 50 \
| xargs -0 cp -t /destination