diff --git a/src/python/m5/main.py b/src/python/m5/main.py
index 4701dfa5ea..ddcb024f8b 100644
--- a/src/python/m5/main.py
+++ b/src/python/m5/main.py
@@ -496,10 +496,23 @@ def main():
             % (socket.gethostname(), os.getpid())
         )
 
-        # in Python 3 pipes.quote() is moved to shlex.quote()
-        import pipes
+        def quote(arg: str) -> str:
+            """Quotes a string for printing in a shell. In addition to Unix,
+            this is designed to handle the problematic Windows cases where
+            'shlex.quote' doesn't work"""
 
-        print("command line:", " ".join(map(pipes.quote, sys.argv)))
+            if os.name == "nt" and os.sep == "\\":
+                # If a Windows machine, we manually quote the string.
+                arg = arg.replace('"', '\\"')
+                if re.search("\s", args):
+                    # We quote args which have whitespace.
+                    arg = '"' + arg + '"'
+                return arg
+            import shlex
+
+            return shlex.quote(arg)
+
+        print("command line:", " ".join(map(quote, sys.argv)))
         print()
 
     # check to make sure we can find the listed script