Re: FVWM: .fvmrc undesired expansion of the $2 variable

From: Rusty Phillips <rustyp_at_freeshell.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:55:23 -0500

It's being interpreted twice by the command: once by test, and once by
the echo.
Test echo $$$$2

It worked for me.

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 06:09, Mauro Gargano wrote:
> Ciao,
>
> I need to avoid the expansion of the string "$2" in the .fvwmrc file.
> This is a simple test scenario:
>
> AddToMenu TT
> + "test" echo '$$2'
>
> The desidered effect should be to write "$2" on the error-device but the
> real effect is an empty string written to stderr.
>
>
> can somebody help me?
>
> thanks,
> Mauro.
>
>
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