Trouble with m4 on linux

"M.R.P. zensky" <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:57:22 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello I am on linux. M4 is installed. I try to define a macro in M4 by typing M4 —define (test,Hello)  I just get the message “bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(`   Do I need to install or setup some other program than m4 for it to work? What am I doing wrong?

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