Any way you can use yyyy/mm/dd format? It's much more universally legible and you can order the dates with simple sorting rather than needing to convert dates to compare them. For example:
perl -e 'print "ok" if "2004-05-11" lt "2004-06-11"'
thx for ur response but i need to take two dates as input from user and compare whether the modified date of the files lies between the two dates taken as input and then take a ll the files matching in an array for later processing