Issue with command line arguments

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Thank you buran!

This helped me realize what was going on. It's rather long to explain but ultimately I used a makefile that worked with another file to take input from text files and feed it as arguments to my program and in doing so it took care of the parenthesis issue.

Thanks for your help with this, I didn't realize that linux separates commands via ; Very good thing to know!