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Dec 11, 2019 at 7:49 comment added Stéphane Chazelas @computingfreak, that should rather be currentmonthname=$(LC_ALL=C date +%B). Your approach would only work if $LANG was already in the environment and LC_ALL was not set and either en_us_88591 is an existing locale on your system with US English month names or (more likely) it doesn't exist in which case it would default to the C/POSIX locale where month names are in English.
Jan 9, 2019 at 8:42 comment added computingfreak the output is locale-specific. for example, this will return "1月" if your system locale is set to Japanese, use currentmonthname=$(LANG=en_us_88591; date "+%B"); to get English month name
Jan 31, 2017 at 8:34 vote accept Hiraman Patil
Jan 31, 2017 at 7:51 history answered Bigon CC BY-SA 3.0