In plain old make you use them the same way you use curly braces in shell scripts. If it is in a shell script, then the the parenthesis signify subshell evaluation.

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Script Doctor While bash scripting is often maligned and not without reason, it is very flexible and powerful, as this example shows.

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Learn how to pass spreadsheet values as parameters to a PowerShell script for more dynamic and functional automation.

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...