awk script inside a shell script

[Gopu Akraju]

Hi,
I am quite new to awk and shell scripting. The following command works fine when I use it in command line where as if I put it inside a shell script I get a syntax error syntax error near unexpected token `(' Please let me know what is wrong with my code.

paste <(cut -f 1-9 test1.txt | awk '{if($7){print}else{printf "%s\t\t\t\n",$0}}') <(cut -f 1-9 test2.txt) >  total.txt

Thanks.