I'm am able to format the date in the unix prompt using NOW=$(date +"%d%m%y"). However, when i put the same format into a shell script, it errors out with the followign.

sintax error on line 4: `NOW=$' unexpected.



#!/bin/ksh

EXP_LOC=/u02/oradata/exports
NOW=$(date +"%d%m%y")

echo $NOW
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"test" 13 lines, 363 characters