diff --git a/.clj-kondo/config.edn b/.clj-kondo/config.edn
index 2f0de4a9..2e9b6f40 100644
--- a/.clj-kondo/config.edn
+++ b/.clj-kondo/config.edn
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@
            babashka.impl.File/gen-wrapper-fn-2 clojure.core/def
            babashka.impl.Pattern/gen-wrapper-fn-2 clojure.core/def
            babashka.impl.Pattern/gen-constants clojure.core/declare}
- :linters {:unsorted-required-namespaces {:level :warning}}}
+ :linters {:unsorted-required-namespaces {:level :warning}}
+ :hooks {:analyze-call {clojure.core/requiring-resolve hooks.mine/req-resolve}}}
diff --git a/process b/process
index be047624..36b2295b 160000
--- a/process
+++ b/process
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit be047624edac65c3c648adace291bba38cd1a933
+Subproject commit 36b2295bc5cdf10e7f2a09c53916c22b91fc8521
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/process.clj b/src/babashka/impl/process.clj
index b463562a..33d77ea3 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/process.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/process.clj
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 
 (def defaults (sci/copy-var process/*defaults* tns))
 
+(defn process* [& args]
+  (binding [process/*defaults* @defaults]
+    (apply process/process* args)))
+
 (defn process [& args]
   (binding [process/*defaults* @defaults]
     (apply process/process args)))
@@ -17,7 +21,9 @@
     (apply process/pb args)))
 
 (def process-namespace
-  {'process     (copy-var process tns)
+  {'parse-args  (copy-var process/parse-args tns)
+   'process*    (copy-var process/process* tns)
+   'process     (copy-var process tns)
    'check       (copy-var process/check tns)
    'pb          (copy-var pb tns)
    'start       (copy-var process/start tns)
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj b/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
index f4f1ad6b..f2775b8f 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
@@ -59,37 +59,13 @@
    :err :inherit
    :shutdown p/destroy-tree})
 
-(defn shell [cmd & args]
-  (let [[prev cmd args]
-        (if (and (map? cmd)
-                 (:proc cmd))
-          [cmd (first args) (rest args)]
-          [nil cmd args])
-        [opts cmd args]
-        (if (map? cmd)
-          [cmd (first args) (rest args)]
-          [nil cmd args])
-        opts (if-let [o (:out opts)]
-               (if (string? o)
-                 (update opts :out io/file)
-                 opts)
-               opts)
-        opts (if-let [o (:err opts)]
-               (if (string? o)
-                 (update opts :err io/file)
-                 opts)
-               opts)
-        opts (if prev
-               (assoc opts :in nil)
-               opts)
-        cmd (if (.exists (io/file cmd))
-              [cmd]
-              (p/tokenize cmd))
-        cmd (into cmd args)
-        local-log-level (:log-level opts)]
+(defn shell [& args]
+  (let [{:keys [prev cmd opts]} (p/parse-args args)
+        local-log-level (:log-level opts)
+        opts (merge default-opts opts)]
     (sci/binding [log-level (or local-log-level @log-level)]
-      (apply log-info cmd)
-      (handle-non-zero (pp/process prev cmd (merge default-opts opts)) opts))))
+      (apply log-info args)
+      (handle-non-zero (pp/process* {:opts opts :cmd cmd :prev prev}) opts))))
 
 (defn clojure [cmd & args]
   (let [[opts cmd args]