Compress a particular month files

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi ALL,

      I am working on a folder where there are lot of files for the past one year. I need to compress a particular month files alone. suppose i need to compress the feb month files alone, what is the script we can use.

Thanks in advance

2

By compress I take it to mean you want to compress each file:
Feb 2011

touch -t 201101302359.59  start_dummy
touch -t 201102282359.59  end_dummy
find /path/to/directory \( -newer start_dummy -a ! - newer end_dummy \)  |
while read fname
do
     compress $fname
     # or use
     # gzip $fname
done
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Apologies for not being clear

let us take a directory which contain 100 files. out of which there are 40 files belonginf to the month of FEbruary. I need a single script which should pick all the feb files and compress them(Instead of manually compressing each file one by one)