> $var = `date | awk {'print 1$'}`
> 
> Um, looks more like a line from a perl script to me than a csh
> script...  Does it really work with csh?

Yes, given a small syntactic change:

   (8:0)eris:~>set var=`date | awk '{print $1}'`
   (9:0)eris:~>echo $var
   Fri


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