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i tried the below code to store the date output in variable.

read -p 'date: ' mydate
date_month= date -d "$mydate" +%b
echo $date_month

it is not printing the output. how to store the date output in variable?.

vijai raghunath
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Your script as written contains

date_month= date -d "$mydate" +%b

Note the space. This runs date -d "$mydate" +%b with date_month set to an empty string. In order to put the result of this command in the variable, you have to use command substitution:

date_month=$(date -d "$mydate" +%b)

Note also the lack of a space.

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