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diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/compat/hbc/system_command.rb b/Library/Homebrew/compat/hbc/system_command.rb
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+require "shellwords"
+
+module SystemCommandCompatibilityLayer
+  def initialize(executable, args: [], **options)
+    if args.empty? && !File.exist?(executable)
+      odeprecated "`system_command` with a shell string", "`system_command` with the `args` parameter"
+      executable, *args = Shellwords.shellsplit(executable)
+    end
+
+    super(executable, args: args, **options)
+  end
+end
+
+module Hbc
+  class SystemCommand
+    prepend SystemCommandCompatibilityLayer
+  end
+end