thorny script argument escaping problem

[Robert La Ferla]

Thanks for the replies.  I thought of a solution shortly after  
sending out my e-mail.  Merely describing a problem to others tends  
to lead to solutions...  I haven't tried it yet but I think I just  
need to re-escape strings that have whitespace in them.  Not the  
whitespace itself but the entire string.  When the shell is passed a  
quoted string, the receiving script should see that string as a  
single argument.  My code that built up the new command line was not  
re-quoting it.  As for getopts, I am familiar with it and am using a  
similar package in Java thus I don't want to recreate that in the  
wrapper script.