i tried the below code to store the date output in variable.
read -p 'date: ' mydate
date_month= date -d "$mydate" +%b
echo $date_month
it is not printing the output. how to store the date output in variable?.
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Your script as written contains
date_month= date -d "$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.
