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.

Practical App PowerShell: An In-Depth Scripting Crash Course This extended Windows PowerShell column will jump-start your knowledge of this powerful technology. By Don Jones 12/01/2011 More of you ...

How to build Mac OS X services with Automator and shell scripting In this hands-on tutorial, Ars will show you how to use Automator to build … ...

Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many tasks and even make life easier for the user. Here's why you shouldn't ...

One of the best new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks, which can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to process ForEach-Object loops.

At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar that gives an idea ...

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 ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...