diff --git a/plugins/mvn/mvn.plugin.zsh b/plugins/mvn/mvn.plugin.zsh
index aafb057fd..059358c93 100644
--- a/plugins/mvn/mvn.plugin.zsh
+++ b/plugins/mvn/mvn.plugin.zsh
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ mvn-color() {
   (
   # Filter mvn output using sed. Before filtering set the locale to C, so invalid characters won't break some sed implementations
   unset LANG
-  LC_CTYPE=C mvn $@ | sed -e "s/\(\[INFO\]\)\(.*\)/${TEXT_BLUE}${BOLD}\1${RESET_FORMATTING}\2/g" \
+  LC_CTYPE=C mvn "$@" | sed -e "s/\(\[INFO\]\)\(.*\)/${TEXT_BLUE}${BOLD}\1${RESET_FORMATTING}\2/g" \
                -e "s/\(\[INFO\]\ BUILD SUCCESSFUL\)/${BOLD}${TEXT_GREEN}\1${RESET_FORMATTING}/g" \
                -e "s/\(\[WARNING\]\)\(.*\)/${BOLD}${TEXT_YELLOW}\1${RESET_FORMATTING}\2/g" \
                -e "s/\(\[ERROR\]\)\(.*\)/${BOLD}${TEXT_RED}\1${RESET_FORMATTING}\2/g" \