command line arguments containing (
 

I'd like to pass a string that contains brackets '(' as a command line argument to a script, like e.g.
But there's a bash error:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
I know that I can use '\(', but this can become quite cumbersome when using many brackets. Is there a better way?

wrap the arguments in quotes?

Ofcourse, if it is the result of the calc statement that you wanted passed as an argument to another command, you could wrap the whole thing in left-hand quotes:

si the calc function expecting a string similar to "f(x)"? If so, then simply use the parantheses.
Otherwise, let us know what calc expects.....