diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4299f182..86748504 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1158,6 +1158,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "shell-words"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "24188a676b6ae68c3b2cb3a01be17fbf7240ce009799bb56d5b1409051e78fde"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
 version = "0.4.9"
@@ -1248,6 +1254,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "serde_yaml",
+ "shell-words",
  "svd2rust",
  "syn 2.0.42",
  "thiserror",
diff --git a/ci/svd2rust-regress/Cargo.toml b/ci/svd2rust-regress/Cargo.toml
index 10709734..da4b74f7 100644
--- a/ci/svd2rust-regress/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ci/svd2rust-regress/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ wildmatch = "2.1.1"
 which = "5.0.0"
 tracing = "0.1.40"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.18", features = ["env-filter", "fmt"] }
+shell-words = "1.1"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ci/svd2rust-regress/src/svd_test.rs b/ci/svd2rust-regress/src/svd_test.rs
index 8ca31f33..6f1e0d9f 100644
--- a/ci/svd2rust-regress/src/svd_test.rs
+++ b/ci/svd2rust-regress/src/svd_test.rs
@@ -259,7 +259,9 @@ impl TestCase {
         let mut svd2rust_bin = Command::new(svd2rust_bin_path);
         if let Some(command) = command {
             if !command.is_empty() {
-                svd2rust_bin.arg(command);
+                svd2rust_bin.args(
+                    shell_words::split(command).context("unable to split command into args")?,
+                );
             }
         }
         svd2rust_bin