diff --git a/run-clang-format.sh b/run-clang-format.sh
index 6f9fc0c80..656c738c6 100755
--- a/run-clang-format.sh
+++ b/run-clang-format.sh
@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@
 # ! -path "soh/assets/*"
 # asset headers are autogenerated, don't fight them
 #
-# | sed 's| |\\ |g'
-# pipe the result of find into sed to
-# ensure all the paths returned by find have spaces escaped
+# -print0
+# separate paths with NUL bytes, avoiding issues with spaces in paths
 #
-# | xargs clang-format-14 -i
+# | xargs -0 clang-format-14 -i
 # use xargs to take each path we've found
 # and pass it as an argument to clang-format
 
-find soh -type f \( -name "*.c" -o -name "*.cpp" -o \( -name "*.h" ! -path "soh/src/**.h" ! -path "soh/include/**.h" \) \) ! -path "soh/assets/*" | sed 's| |\\ |g' | xargs clang-format-14 -i
+find soh -type f \( -name "*.c" -o -name "*.cpp" -o \( -name "*.h" ! -path "soh/src/**.h" ! -path "soh/include/**.h" \) \) ! -path "soh/assets/*" -print0 | xargs -0 clang-format-14 -i