diff --git a/user/tb/interp.c b/user/tb/interp.c
index 4a7469f..e04c3a1 100644
--- a/user/tb/interp.c
+++ b/user/tb/interp.c
@@ -28,7 +28,13 @@ void tz_free(Tokenizer *tz) {
 
 void tz_tokenize(Tokenizer *tz) {
   size_t len = string_len(tz->str);
-  for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+  size_t i = 0;
+
+  while (i < len && string_chr_isspace(tz->str[i])) {
+    i++;
+  }
+
+  for (; i < len; i++) {
     if (tz->str[i] == '\'') {
       char *str = umalloc(TZ_MAX_TK);
       string_memset(str, 0, TZ_MAX_TK);
@@ -167,7 +173,7 @@ bool interp_runstring(char *string, InterpResult **res, bool logcmds, bool inter
   rt_init();
   bool ok = true;
   
-  char *line = string_tokenizealloc(string, "\n");
+  char *line = string_tokenizealloc_linecontinue(string, "\n");
   while (line != NULL) {
     if (logcmds) {
       uprintf("+%s\n", line);
@@ -176,7 +182,8 @@ bool interp_runstring(char *string, InterpResult **res, bool logcmds, bool inter
     bool skip;
     STRING_CHECK_ALL(line, string_chr_isspace, skip);
     if (skip) {
-      line = string_tokenizealloc(NULL, "\n");
+      ufree(line);
+      line = string_tokenizealloc_linecontinue(NULL, "\n");
       continue;
     }
 
@@ -250,7 +257,7 @@ bool interp_runstring(char *string, InterpResult **res, bool logcmds, bool inter
 next:
     tz_free(&tz);
     ufree(line);
-    line = string_tokenizealloc(NULL, "\n");
+    line = string_tokenizealloc_linecontinue(NULL, "\n");
   }
 
   return ok;