diff --git a/hosts b/hosts
index 4094349..991bcaf 100755
--- a/hosts
+++ b/hosts
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ done
 # `_COMMAND_PARAMETERS=("${_COMMAND_ARGV[@]:1}")`) because under bash 3.2 the
 # resulting slice is treated as a quoted string and doesn't easily get coaxed
 # into a new array.
-_COMMAND_PARAMETERS=(${_COMMAND_ARGV[*]})
+_COMMAND_PARAMETERS=("${_COMMAND_ARGV[@]}")
 unset "_COMMAND_PARAMETERS[0]"
 
 _debug printf \