diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index cc48b97..ad83865 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -4,12 +4,25 @@ const { cmdArrayAttr } = require('./common');
 const proxyifyCmd = (t, ...cmdStart) => {
   // Create the target (or use the one passed in)
   t = t || function _t(...args) {
-    // Wrap all the arguments in quotes
-    const newArgs = cmdStart
-      .concat(args)
-      .map((x) => JSON.stringify(x));
-    // Run this command in the shell
-    return origShell.exec.call(this.stdout, newArgs.join(' '));
+    let newArgs = [];
+    // The first segment of the command should not be wrapped in quotes
+    newArgs.push(cmdStart[0]);
+
+    // Wrap all subsequent arguments in quotes
+    newArgs = newArgs
+      .concat(cmdStart.slice(1))
+      .concat(args);
+    // Run this command in the shell with globbing temporarily disabled.
+    // 'noglob' is part of ShellJS internals, but hopefully this will stay
+    // around. We cannot achieve the same with `set('-f')` because we need to
+    // know the previous state in order to reset globbing back the way it was.
+    const oldGlob = origShell.config.noglob;
+    try {
+      origShell.config.noglob = true;
+      return origShell.cmd.call(this.stdout, newArgs);
+    } finally {
+      origShell.config.noglob = oldGlob;
+    }
   };
   // Store the list of commands, in case we have a subcommand chain
   t[cmdArrayAttr] = cmdStart;
diff --git a/test/test.js b/test/test.js
index e7ccb2c..37f7389 100644
--- a/test/test.js
+++ b/test/test.js
@@ -289,6 +289,26 @@ describe('proxy', function describeproxy() {
       done();
     });
 
+    it('other shelljs commands can still glob', (done) => {
+      const fa = 'a.txt';
+      const fglob = '*.txt';
+      shell.exec('echo hello world').to(fa);
+      shell.exec('echo hello world').to(fglob);
+
+      if (unix()) {
+        shell.__native.rm(fglob);
+      } else {
+        shell.del(fglob);
+      }
+      fs.existsSync(fglob).should.equal(false);
+      fs.existsSync(fa).should.equal(true);
+
+      shell.rm('*.txt');
+      fs.existsSync(fglob).should.equal(false);
+      fs.existsSync(fa).should.equal(false);
+      done();
+    });
+
     it('escapes quotes', (done) => {
       if (!unix()) {
         // Windows doesn't support `"` as a character in a filename, see