diff --git a/src/universal/bin/sbt b/src/universal/bin/sbt
index efa1987df..48d1ff90f 100755
--- a/src/universal/bin/sbt
+++ b/src/universal/bin/sbt
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ process_my_args () {
 }
 
 loadConfigFile() {
-  for line in $(cat "$1" | sed '/^\#/d'); do
+  cat "$1" | sed '/^\#/d' | while read line; do
     eval echo $line
   done
 }