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setting variable from grep | cut

file.dat contains
blah/hah

running the following at the shell prompt it works
$grep 'blah' file.dat | cut -d '/' -f 2
hah
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
trying to have it store it as a variable in a script, it doesn't error, but when it echos theres nothing

set email=`grep 'blah' file.dat | cut -d '/' -f2'
echo $email

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set email=`grep 'blah' file.dat | cut -d '/' -f2'
echo $email

The last ' should be a backtick `

Code:

email=`grep 'blah' file.dat | cut -d '/' -f2`
echo $email

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