diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 6ee0380..4243efe 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ New features
 Bug fixes and minor changes
 ---------------------------
 
++ `#81`_, `#82`_: `archive-tool ls` fails with :exc:`TypeError` if the
+  path of a file in the archive contains two consecutive blanks.
+
 + `#75`_: Drop :class:`distutils.version.StrictVersion` deprecated
   since Python 3.10 in favour of our own helper
   :class:`archive.tools.Version` based on
@@ -32,6 +35,8 @@ Internal changes
 .. _#76: https://github.com/RKrahl/archive-tools/issues/76
 .. _#77: https://github.com/RKrahl/archive-tools/pull/77
 .. _#80: https://github.com/RKrahl/archive-tools/pull/80
+.. _#81: https://github.com/RKrahl/archive-tools/issues/81
+.. _#82: https://github.com/RKrahl/archive-tools/pull/82
 
 
 0.6 (2021-12-12)
diff --git a/src/archive/cli/ls.py b/src/archive/cli/ls.py
index c3d12cb..d41db19 100644
--- a/src/archive/cli/ls.py
+++ b/src/archive/cli/ls.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def ls_ls_format(archive):
     l_ug = 0
     l_s = 0
     for fi in archive.manifest:
-        elems = tuple(str(fi).split("  "))
+        elems = fi.as_str_tuple()
         l_ug = max(l_ug, len(elems[1]))
         l_s = max(l_s, len(elems[2]))
         items.append(elems)
diff --git a/src/archive/manifest.py b/src/archive/manifest.py
index 5d4310b..315ae89 100644
--- a/src/archive/manifest.py
+++ b/src/archive/manifest.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ def as_dict(self):
             d['target'] = str(self.target)
         return d
 
-    def __str__(self):
+    def as_str_tuple(self):
         m = stat.filemode(self.st_mode)
         ug = "%s/%s" % (self.uname or self.uid, self.gname or self.gid)
         s = str(self.size if self.type == 'f' else 0)
@@ -129,7 +129,10 @@ def __str__(self):
             p = "%s -> %s" % (self.path, self.target)
         else:
             p = self.path
-        return "%s  %s  %s  %s  %s" % (m, ug, s, d, p)
+        return (m, ug, s, d, p)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return "%s  %s  %s  %s  %s" % self.as_str_tuple()
 
     @classmethod
     def iterpaths(cls, paths, excludes):
diff --git a/tests/test_04_cli_ls.py b/tests/test_04_cli_ls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96ae3c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_04_cli_ls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+"""Test the ls subcommand in the command line tool.
+
+The general functioning is already tested in test_04_cli.py, we only
+consider edge cases here.
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+import stat
+from tempfile import TemporaryFile
+import pytest
+from archive import Archive
+from conftest import *
+
+
+def test_cli_ls_blank_path(tmpdir):
+    """Test case: archive contains a file having blanks in the path.
+    Ref. Issue #81.
+    """
+    testdata = [
+        DataDir(Path("base"), 0o755),
+        DataFile(Path("base", "msg.txt"), 0o644),
+        DataContentFile(Path("base", "path  with  blanks.dat"), b"", 0o600),
+    ]
+    setup_testdata(tmpdir, testdata)
+    archive_path = tmpdir / "archive.tar"
+    Archive().create(archive_path, paths=[Path("base")], workdir=tmpdir)
+    with TemporaryFile(mode="w+t", dir=tmpdir) as f:
+        args = ["ls", str(archive_path)]
+        callscript("archive-tool.py", args, stdout=f)
+        f.seek(0)
+        for entry in sorted(testdata, key=lambda e: e.path):
+            line = f.readline().strip()
+            fields = line.split(maxsplit=5)
+            assert fields[0] == stat.filemode(entry.st_mode)
+            assert fields[5] == str(entry.path)
+            assert len(fields) == 6
+        assert not f.readline()