diff --git a/installer/spk/scripts/start-stop-status b/installer/spk/scripts/start-stop-status
index 00b9da81..e7b3f44c 100644
--- a/installer/spk/scripts/start-stop-status
+++ b/installer/spk/scripts/start-stop-status
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ case "$1" in
 	;;
 
 	log)
-		# Select most recently modified log file (Caveats: the path of the log file must not contain spaces)
-		find "$APP_ROOT/data" -name "*.log" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Alt1 | head -n 1 | awk '{print $7}'
+		# select most recently modified log file
+		find "$APP_ROOT/data" -name "*.log" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Alt1 | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/\s\+/\s /g' | cut -d' ' -f7-
 		exit 0
 	;;