Recursive move files of specific type to a specific path

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Published on 2010-02-01T03:36:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 9:33 UTC
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In ~/my/path, I want to move all files that contain string "(J)" and have file type of ".foo" to ~/my/path/j

I'm trying:

[me ~/my/path]$ find -type f -name "*(J)*.foo" -print0 | xargs mv -0 j/

No luck :(

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