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.

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics.

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line.

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

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 … ...

As an example, here’s [calebccf] with an emulated 6502 system in a busybox ash shell script. What’s in the emulator? A simple 6502 system with RAM, ROM, and an emulated serial port on STDIO.

Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -Path 'Script.ps1' PSScriptAnalyzer will then parse the script and attempt to find violations of any of the default rules that you saw earlier. If you have multiple scripts in a ...

Here are three pointers for finding and fixing any bugs in your PowerShell script, no matter how long it is.

Still, it was an interesting exercise as a shell-scripting problem, because it's surprisingly simply to adapt a set of conversion rules into a sequence of commands. I sidestepped one piece of it, ...

If you receive error code 0xFFFD0000 while using the Task Scheduler to schedule running of a Powershell Script, then this post will help you fix the problem.