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.

This exhaustive Windows PowerShell tutorial is perfect for beginners who want to learn how to script in a quick and easy manner. Take a look!

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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.

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