diff --git a/scripts/detect_platform.sh b/scripts/detect_platform.sh
index 26735a9..3ae323c 100755
--- a/scripts/detect_platform.sh
+++ b/scripts/detect_platform.sh
@@ -49,9 +49,12 @@ case "$major" in
     *)  jetpack="unknown" ;;
 esac
 
-echo "L4T=${l4t:-unknown}"
-echo "L4T_MAJOR=${major:-unknown}"
-echo "JETPACK=${jetpack}"
-echo "SOC=${soc}"
-echo "ARCH=$(uname -m)"
-echo "MODEL=${model}"
+# %q-escaped so a caller can `eval` the output safely: MODEL holds spaces
+# ("NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano …"), which unquoted would make eval run "Jetson" as a
+# command.
+printf 'L4T=%q\n'       "${l4t:-unknown}"
+printf 'L4T_MAJOR=%q\n' "${major:-unknown}"
+printf 'JETPACK=%q\n'   "${jetpack}"
+printf 'SOC=%q\n'       "${soc}"
+printf 'ARCH=%q\n'      "$(uname -m)"
+printf 'MODEL=%q\n'     "${model}"