diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index adff685a034..7276f070ea7 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 #     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
-        "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
+        "-Dorg.gradle.appname='$APP_BASE_NAME'" \
         -jar "$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar" \
         "$@"