diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cb781eeff..157c8d476 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ The parsing configuration is applied to each element of the array.
 - [#1771](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1771): Delete nil fields in the metric maker.
 - [#870](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/870): Fix MySQL special characters in DSN parsing.
 - [#1742](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1742): Ping input odd timeout behavior.
+- [#1950](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1950): Switch to github.com/kballard/go-shellquote.
 
 ## v1.0.1 [2016-09-26]
 
diff --git a/Godeps b/Godeps
index 6521c2955..6a0a17df1 100644
--- a/Godeps
+++ b/Godeps
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql 1fca743146605a172a266e1654e01e5cd5669bee
 github.com/gobwas/glob 49571a1557cd20e6a2410adc6421f85b66c730b5
 github.com/golang/protobuf 552c7b9542c194800fd493123b3798ef0a832032
 github.com/golang/snappy d9eb7a3d35ec988b8585d4a0068e462c27d28380
-github.com/gonuts/go-shellquote e842a11b24c6abfb3dd27af69a17f482e4b483c2
 github.com/gorilla/context 1ea25387ff6f684839d82767c1733ff4d4d15d0a
 github.com/gorilla/mux c9e326e2bdec29039a3761c07bece13133863e1e
 github.com/hailocab/go-hostpool e80d13ce29ede4452c43dea11e79b9bc8a15b478
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ github.com/influxdata/toml af4df43894b16e3fd2b788d01bd27ad0776ef2d0
 github.com/influxdata/wlog 7c63b0a71ef8300adc255344d275e10e5c3a71ec
 github.com/kardianos/osext 29ae4ffbc9a6fe9fb2bc5029050ce6996ea1d3bc
 github.com/kardianos/service 5e335590050d6d00f3aa270217d288dda1c94d0a
+github.com/kballard/go-shellquote d8ec1a69a250a17bb0e419c386eac1f3711dc142
 github.com/klauspost/crc32 19b0b332c9e4516a6370a0456e6182c3b5036720
 github.com/lib/pq e182dc4027e2ded4b19396d638610f2653295f36
 github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions d0c3fe89de86839aecf2e0579c40ba3bb336a453
diff --git a/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md b/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md
index 5553fda70..5bb1bd036 100644
--- a/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md
+++ b/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
 - github.com/gogo/protobuf [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/gogo/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE)
 - github.com/golang/protobuf [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE)
 - github.com/golang/snappy [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/snappy/blob/master/LICENSE)
-- github.com/gonuts/go-shellquote (No License, but the project it was forked from https://github.com/kballard/go-shellquote is [MIT](https://github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/blob/master/LICENSE)).
 - github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack/blob/master/LICENSE)
 - github.com/hashicorp/raft [MPL LICENSE](https://github.com/hashicorp/raft/blob/master/LICENSE)
 - github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb [MPL LICENSE](https://github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb/blob/master/LICENSE)
 - github.com/kardianos/service [ZLIB LICENSE](https://github.com/kardianos/service/blob/master/LICENSE) (License not named but matches word for word with ZLib)
+- github.com/kballard/go-shellquote [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/blob/master/LICENSE)
 - github.com/lib/pq [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/lib/pq/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
 - github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions [APACHE LICENSE](https://github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/blob/master/LICENSE)
 - github.com/naoina/go-stringutil [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/naoina/go-stringutil/blob/master/LICENSE)
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/exec/exec.go b/plugins/inputs/exec/exec.go
index f2fc60e5c..154080138 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/exec/exec.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/exec/exec.go
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/gonuts/go-shellquote"
+	"github.com/kballard/go-shellquote"
 
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"