diff --git a/hack/.shellcheck_failures b/hack/.shellcheck_failures
index 3fbdac45e6..1f3559330b 100644
--- a/hack/.shellcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.shellcheck_failures
@@ -48,9 +48,7 @@
 ./hack/update-generated-kms-dockerized.sh
 ./hack/update-generated-protobuf-dockerized.sh
 ./hack/update-generated-runtime-dockerized.sh
-./hack/update-gofmt.sh
 ./hack/update-openapi-spec.sh
-./hack/update-translations.sh
 ./hack/update-vendor-licenses.sh
 ./hack/update-vendor.sh
 ./hack/verify-api-groups.sh
diff --git a/hack/update-gofmt.sh b/hack/update-gofmt.sh
index 33de85bbf0..9a9aab7bf4 100755
--- a/hack/update-gofmt.sh
+++ b/hack/update-gofmt.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
 source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/lib/init.sh"
 
 kube::golang::verify_go_version
@@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ find_files() {
 }
 
 GOFMT="gofmt -s -w"
-find_files | xargs ${GOFMT}
+find_files | xargs "${GOFMT}"
diff --git a/hack/update-translations.sh b/hack/update-translations.sh
index 0cc7b14d8a..81fe810f8f 100755
--- a/hack/update-translations.sh
+++ b/hack/update-translations.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
 source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/lib/util.sh"
 
 KUBECTL_FILES="pkg/kubectl/cmd/*.go pkg/kubectl/cmd/*/*.go"
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ fi
 
 if [[ "${generate_pot}" == "true" ]]; then
   echo "Extracting strings to POT"
-  go-xgettext -k=i18n.T ${KUBECTL_FILES} > tmp.pot
+  go-xgettext -k=i18n.T "${KUBECTL_FILES}" > tmp.pot
   perl -pi -e 's/CHARSET/UTF-8/' tmp.pot
   perl -pi -e 's/\\\(/\\\\\(/g' tmp.pot
   perl -pi -e 's/\\\)/\\\\\)/g' tmp.pot
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ fi
 if [[ "${generate_mo}" == "true" ]]; then
   echo "Generating .po and .mo files"
   for x in translations/*/*/*/*.po; do
-    msgcat -s ${x} > tmp.po
-    mv tmp.po ${x}
+    msgcat -s "${x}" > tmp.po
+    mv tmp.po "${x}"
     echo "generating .mo file for: ${x}"
-    msgfmt ${x} -o "$(dirname ${x})/$(basename ${x} .po).mo"
+    msgfmt "${x}" -o "$(dirname "${x}")/$(basename "${x}" .po).mo"
   done
 fi