diff --git a/src/bun.js/api/bun/subprocess.zig b/src/bun.js/api/bun/subprocess.zig
index f51669b5948db..0bc301d04360a 100644
--- a/src/bun.js/api/bun/subprocess.zig
+++ b/src/bun.js/api/bun/subprocess.zig
@@ -1801,10 +1801,6 @@ pub const Subprocess = struct {
                 while (cmds_array.next()) |value| {
                     const arg = value.getZigString(globalThis);
 
-                    // if the string is empty, ignore it, don't add it to the argv
-                    if (arg.len == 0) {
-                        continue;
-                    }
                     argv.appendAssumeCapacity(arg.toOwnedSliceZ(allocator) catch {
                         globalThis.throwOutOfMemory();
                         return .zero;
diff --git a/test/js/bun/spawn/empty-final-arg.js b/test/js/bun/spawn/empty-final-arg.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c462a6248e08f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/js/bun/spawn/empty-final-arg.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+if (process.argv[process.argv.length - 1] == "") {
+  process.exit(0);
+} else {
+  process.exit(1);
+}
diff --git a/test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-empty-args.test.ts b/test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-empty-args.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bd14bca120c0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-empty-args.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { bunExe } from "harness";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+test("handle empty argument", async () => {
+  const proc = Bun.spawn({
+    cmd: [bunExe(), join(import.meta.dirname, "empty-final-arg.js"), ""],
+    stdin: "ignore",
+    stdout: "ignore",
+    stderr: "ignore",
+  });
+
+  const exited = await proc.exited;
+  expect(exited).toBe(0);
+});