diff --git a/scripts/apatch.sh b/scripts/apatch.sh
index f56771d9e..6c836bb56 100755
--- a/scripts/apatch.sh
+++ b/scripts/apatch.sh
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ fi
 		echo "===========================";
 		echo " "
 		echo " MISSING FILES"
-		echo $(echo "$errors" | grep "No such file")
+		echo "$errors" | grep "No such file"
 		echo -e "$missingfiles"
 		echo " "
 		echo "===========================";
diff --git a/scripts/upstreamCommit.sh b/scripts/upstreamCommit.sh
index 019dc780b..db708ed7c 100755
--- a/scripts/upstreamCommit.sh
+++ b/scripts/upstreamCommit.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # flag: --pufferfish HASH - the commit hash to use for comparing commits between pufferfish (pufferfish-gg/Pufferfish/compare/HASH...HEAD)
 
 function getCommits() {
-    echo "$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/"$1"/compare/"$2"...dev/1.19 | jq -r '.commits[] | "'"$1"'@\(.sha[:7]) \(.commit.message | split("\r\n")[0] | split("\n")[0])"')"
+    curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/"$1"/compare/"$2"...dev/1.19 | jq -r '.commits[] | "'"$1"'@\(.sha[:7]) \(.commit.message | split("\r\n")[0] | split("\n")[0])"'
 }
 
 (