I think this is easier:

date -d "`date +%_d` day" +%b

Regards.


2007-05-31, 08:28(-07), wol...@gmail.com:> I have a process the uses
the date function to get the last month and
> the current month. Here are the functions

> set x = `date -d "-1 month" +%b`
> set y = `date -d "0 month" +%b`

> For some reason x and y are both May. Does this have something to
do
> with May being 31 days? This had been working all of April and all
of
> May. I am using csh