diff --git a/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat b/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
index 4bae4f7ad..2fdeb2f43 100755
--- a/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
+++ b/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ if defined sbt_args_verbose (
   if defined _JAVA_OPTS ( call :echolist !_JAVA_OPTS! )
   if defined _SBT_OPTS ( call :echolist !_SBT_OPTS! )
   echo -cp "!SBT_HOME!\bin\sbt-launch.jar" xsbt.boot.Boot
-  if not "%*" == "" ( call :echolist %* )
+  if not [%~1] == [] ( call :echolist %* )
   echo.
 )