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Old 10-10-2008
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That looks as if it's being executed by a non-standard shell rather than by ksh. You can use the old-fashioned form of command substitution:


Code:
NOW=`date +%Y%m%d`

... but you should figure out why it is not using ksh.

How are you calling the script?