it was a change to the shell script (sdfcli) in 2019.1.2 that ’fixed it. last line, that actually launches the jar. used to use

java -jar "$cli_jar_file_path" $*

, 2019.1.2 version uses:

java -jar "$cli_jar_file_path" ${1+"$@"}

i ran the updated parameter expansion using the 2019.1.0 jar and it also worked (so it wasn’t something specific to the JAR, just the tweak to the actual command.)