diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f8c8daea7..4f5207df5 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.6.0
 	github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.13
 	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.16
+	github.com/mattn/go-shellwords v1.0.12
 	github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.1
 	github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.7.8
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.9.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index d0b70782d..814dfaa70 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20 h1:xfD0iDuEKnDkl03q4limB+vH+GxLEtL/jb4xVJSWWE
 github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20/go.mod h1:W+V8PltTTMOvKvAeJH7IuucS94S2C6jfK/D7dTCTo3Y=
 github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.16 h1:E5ScNMtiwvlvB5paMFdw9p4kSQzbXFikJ5SQO6TULQc=
 github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.16/go.mod h1:Jdepj2loyihRzMpdS35Xk/zdY8IAYHsh153qUoGf23w=
+github.com/mattn/go-shellwords v1.0.12 h1:M2zGm7EW6UQJvDeQxo4T51eKPurbeFbe8WtebGE2xrk=
+github.com/mattn/go-shellwords v1.0.12/go.mod h1:EZzvwXDESEeg03EKmM+RmDnNOPKG4lLtQsUlTZDWQ8Y=
 github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0/go.mod h1:J6wj4VEh+S6ZtnVlnTBMWIodfgj8LQOQFoIToxlJtxc=
 github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7 h1:WUdvkW8uEhrYfLC4ZzdpI2ztxP1I582+49Oc5Mq64VQ=
 github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7/go.mod h1:FN3SvrM+Zdj16jyLfmOkMNblXMcoc8DfTHruCPUcx88=
diff --git a/process.go b/process.go
index ef9ed8367..c438b615b 100644
--- a/process.go
+++ b/process.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"os/exec"
 	"sync"
 
+	"github.com/mattn/go-shellwords"
 	"golang.org/x/sync/errgroup"
 	"golang.org/x/sync/semaphore"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/execabs"
@@ -109,18 +110,36 @@ func (proc *concurrentProcess) wait() {
 // newCommandRunner creates new external command runner for given executable. The executable path
 // is resolved in this function.
 func (proc *concurrentProcess) newCommandRunner(exe string, combineOutput bool) (*externalCommand, error) {
-	p, err := execabs.LookPath(exe)
+	var args []string
+	p, args, err := findExe(exe)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	cmd := &externalCommand{
 		proc:          proc,
 		exe:           p,
+		args:          args,
 		combineOutput: combineOutput,
 	}
 	return cmd, nil
 }
 
+func findExe(exe string) (string, []string, error) {
+	p, err := execabs.LookPath(exe)
+	if err == nil {
+		return p, nil, nil
+	}
+	// See if the command string contains args. As it is best effort, we do not
+	// handle parse errors.
+	if exeArgs, _ := shellwords.Parse(exe); len(exeArgs) > 0 {
+		if p, err := execabs.LookPath(exeArgs[0]); err == nil {
+			return p, exeArgs[1:], nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	return "", nil, err
+}
+
 // externalCommand is struct to run specific command concurrently with concurrentProcess bounding
 // number of processes at the same time. This type manages fatal errors while running the command
 // by using errgroup.Group. The wait() method must be called at the end for checking if some fatal
@@ -129,6 +148,7 @@ type externalCommand struct {
 	proc          *concurrentProcess
 	eg            errgroup.Group
 	exe           string
+	args          []string
 	combineOutput bool
 }
 
@@ -136,6 +156,12 @@ type externalCommand struct {
 // process runs. First argument is stdout and the second argument is an error while running the
 // process.
 func (cmd *externalCommand) run(args []string, stdin string, callback func([]byte, error) error) {
+	if len(cmd.args) > 0 {
+		var allArgs []string
+		allArgs = append(allArgs, cmd.args...)
+		allArgs = append(allArgs, args...)
+		args = allArgs
+	}
 	exec := &cmdExecution{cmd.exe, args, stdin, cmd.combineOutput}
 	cmd.proc.run(&cmd.eg, exec, callback)
 }
diff --git a/process_test.go b/process_test.go
index 13c62a5eb..f2c036fd0 100644
--- a/process_test.go
+++ b/process_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"sync/atomic" // Note: atomic.Bool was added at Go 1.19
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/execabs"
 )
 
 func testStartEchoCommand(t *testing.T, proc *concurrentProcess, done *atomic.Bool) {
@@ -63,6 +65,35 @@ func TestProcessRunConcurrently(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestProcessRunWithArgs(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := execabs.LookPath("echo"); err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("echo command is necessary to run this test: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	var done atomic.Bool
+	p := newConcurrentProcess(1)
+	echo, err := p.newCommandRunner("echo hello", false)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf(`parsing "echo hello" failed: %v`, err)
+	}
+	echo.run(nil, "", func(b []byte, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Error(err)
+			return err
+		}
+		if string(b) != "hello\n" {
+			t.Errorf("unexpected output: %q", b)
+		}
+		done.Store(true)
+		return nil
+	})
+	p.wait()
+
+	if !done.Load() {
+		t.Error("callback did not run")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestProcessRunMultipleCommandsConcurrently(t *testing.T) {
 	p := newConcurrentProcess(3)