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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