diff --git a/amend/tests/006-lex-words/SKIP b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/SKIP
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/SKIP
diff --git a/amend/tests/006-lex-words/expected.txt b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/expected.txt
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+++ b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/expected.txt
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+ IDENTIFIER<test> WORD<this> WORD<has> WORD<a> WORD<bunch> WORD<of> WORD<BARE> WORD<ALPHA> WORD<WORDS> EOL
+ IDENTIFIER<test> WORD<12> WORD<this> WORD<has(some> WORD<)> WORD<ALPHANUMER1C> WORD<and> WORD<\\> WORD<whatever> WORD<characters> EOL
+ IDENTIFIER<test> WORD<this> WORD<has> WORD<mixed> WORD<bare> WORD<and quoted> WORD<words> EOL
+ IDENTIFIER<test> WORD<what> WORD<about> WORD<quotesin the middle?> EOL
+ IDENTIFIER<test> WORD<"""shouldn't> WORD<be> WORD<a> WORD<quoted> WORD<string> EOL
+ EOF
diff --git a/amend/tests/006-lex-words/info.txt b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/info.txt
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+++ b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/info.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Test to make sure that argument words are tokenized properly.
diff --git a/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input
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+++ b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input
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+test this has a bunch of BARE ALPHA WORDS
+test 12 this has(some ) ALPHANUMER1C and \\ whatever characters
+test this has mixed bare "and quoted" words
+test what about quotes"in the middle?"
+test \"\"\"shouldn't be a quoted string
diff --git a/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input2 b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input2
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+++ b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input2
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+# This should fail
+test1 "unterminated string
diff --git a/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input3 b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input3
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index 0000000..02f3f85
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+++ b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/input3
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+# This should fail
+test1 "string with illegal escape \n in the middle"
diff --git a/amend/tests/006-lex-words/run b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/run
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+++ b/amend/tests/006-lex-words/run
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+amend --debug-lex input