diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3736a6a1..83e4448c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ CHANGELOG
     - Fixed AWK tokenizer not treating a new line character as whitespace
     - Fixed `--{accept,with}-nth` removing trailing whitespaces with a non-default `--delimiter`
     - Fixed OSC8 hyperlinks being mangled when the URL contains unicode characters (#4707)
+    - Fixed `--with-shell` not handling quoted arguments correctly (#4709)
 
 0.70.0
 ------
diff --git a/src/util/util_unix.go b/src/util/util_unix.go
index 5a67066b..736fa016 100644
--- a/src/util/util_unix.go
+++ b/src/util/util_unix.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 
+	"github.com/junegunn/go-shellwords"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
@@ -20,8 +21,8 @@ type Executor struct {
 
 func NewExecutor(withShell string) *Executor {
 	shell := os.Getenv("SHELL")
-	args := strings.Fields(withShell)
-	if len(args) > 0 {
+	args, err := shellwords.Parse(withShell)
+	if err == nil && len(args) > 0 {
 		shell = args[0]
 		args = args[1:]
 	} else {