[SOLVED] How to write a CVS wrapper script

How to write a CVS wrapper script

I'd like to write a CVS wrapper script that executes the command on another machine using RSH but am having trouble with quotes.

#!/bin/csh -f
rsh <machine> cvs $*:q

The problem is that even though the arguments are passed with quotes RSH seems to drop them when the command is executed. The following command should appear as 3 arguments at the destination but has 4 instead.

cvsWrap diff -D "2011-05-01 00:00:00"

I'm not looking for advice on how not to use rsh since I'm really using qrsh, an rsh-compatible version for SGE. I considered using an interpreter but I don't know how to escape the quotes within strings:

rsh <machine> /bin/csh -c "cvs $*:q"

I'm most familiar with c-shell but would be willing to consider a bash script if someone were to write it. How can I write this CVS script?

Solution

I declared defeat and just wrote the script in Groovy.

#!/usr/bin/env groovy
def rshCmd = "qrsh -cwd -now n -b y".split().toList()
def cvsCmd = ["cvs"] + args.collect { '"' + it + '"' }
def process = (qrshCmd + cvsCmd).execute()

def outTh = Thread.start {
  try {
    process.in.eachLine {
      System.out.println it
    }
  } catch(e) {}
}

def errTh = Thread.start {
  try {
    process.err.eachLine {
      System.err.println it
    }
  } catch(e) {}
}

outTh.join()
errTh.join()
process.waitFor()
System.exit(process.exitValue())