diff --git a/neofetch b/neofetch
index 8bebbaa6..bd1f2ccf 100755
--- a/neofetch
+++ b/neofetch
@@ -3263,19 +3263,10 @@ get_bold() {
 }
 
 trim() {
-    # When a string is passed to "echo" all trailing and leading
-    # whitespace is removed and inside the string multiple spaces are
-    # condensed into single spaces.
-    #
-    # The "set -f/+f" is here so that "echo" doesn't cause any expansion
-    # of special characters.
-    #
-    # The whitespace trim doesn't work with multiline strings so we use
-    # "${1//[[:space:]]/ }" to remove newlines before we trim the whitespace.
-
     set -f
-    # shellcheck disable=2086
-    builtin echo -E ${1//[[:space:]]/ }
+    # shellcheck disable=2048,2086
+    set -- $*
+    printf "%s\\n" "${*//[[:space:]]/ }"
     set +f
 }