groovy execute with parameters containing spaces

Question

How do I provide arguments containing spaces to the execute method of strings in groovy? Just adding spaces like one would in a shell does not help:

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println 'ls "/tmp/folder with spaces"'.execute().text 

This would give three broken arguments to the ls call.

Answer 1

The trick was to use a list:

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println(['ls', '/tmp/folder with spaces'].execute().text)