As SYSDBA from Exp cmd line

I want to automate doing a tablespace export from a script. I'm using Oracle 8i and it's running on Solaris 8. The problem is that 'exp' is incorrectly parsing my command line parameters (namely the username & password):

exp sys/****_at_oradev as sysdb

LRM-00108: invalid positional parameter value 'as'

I've tried escaping the whole sequence with ' or " but neither seems to work.. ?

Any insight appreciated,
Matt

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