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Unix copy some files to another directory

I have a logs directory where log files are getting copied for all the processes run during the day.
Users requested all the log files for February 20. There are more than 200 files generated for this date.
My question is how can I copy all the files generated on feb 20 to some other directory? This is on unix sun solaris.
Thanks

woolmilkporc

touch -t 201602200000 /tmp/from
touch -t 201602202359 /tmp/to

cd /path/to/logdirectory
find . -type f -newer /tmp/from ! -newer /tmp/to | xargs -I{} cp {} /path/to/some/otherdirectory

rm /tmp/from /tmp/to

or

touch -t 201602200000 /tmp/from
touch -t 201602202359 /tmp/to

cd /path/to/logdirectory
find . -type f -newer /tmp/from ! -newer /tmp/to -exec cp {} /path/to/some/otherdirectory \+

rm /tmp/from /tmp/to

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Thanks but I am not getting how this will get all the files only for Feb 20 and leave all the thousands of files from this directory? Also, I like to mention that the file names has no date but the files need to get from the time-stamp.

example:-
-rw------- 1 rpsoft rpsoft 3685 Feb 20 08:45 apps_0892367_2T56TYZ.log
-rw------- 1 rpsoft rpsoft 4422 Feb 20 09:22 apps_0892367_2T4FB62.log
-rw------- 1 rpsoft rpsoft 7 Feb 20 14:30 rem_trace_cqrt_z23874_fvc_params.txt
-rw------- 1 rpsoft rpsoft 73 Feb 20 14:30 rem_trace_cqrt_z23874_fvc.raw
-rw------- 1 rpsoft rpsoft 99 Feb 20 14:30 rem_trace_cqrt_z23874_fvc.txt

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The question is not resolved but the admin require to close this question. I appreciate everyone for participating and try helping me resolving my question. Great helping team here.