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How to Zip the files from given start date to end date

### find all files that were modified less than 29 days ago and more than 21 days ago.

# find . -type f -mtime -29 -mtime +21 | zip -@ my.zip
# tar cvf - `find . -type f -mtime -29 -mtime +21` | gzip -c 1>061110_061201.tgz

# find largest files 
# du -m /some/path | sort -nr | head -n 20
# find / -type f -size +20M -exec ls -lh {} \; 

# find hard disk usage - top space consuming directories
# du -hcsx *
# du -hcsx * |sort -r|head -10