storing current month in shell variable..

[Ed Greshko]

Mulley, Nikhil wrote:
> Hi , 
> Nikhil again ... :)
> I wanna store the current month in a shell variable , for which I am attempting to do like this ...
> #!/usr/bin/sh
> MON=`(date | awk '{print $2}')
> echo $MON
> But when I execute the script , I get nothing...
> Can anyone point me in where I have gone wrong ??

Missing trailing `

MON=`(date | awk '{print $2}')`

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