diff --git a/hack/.shellcheck_failures b/hack/.shellcheck_failures
index e05c8696e40..3b59cc0fa44 100644
--- a/hack/.shellcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.shellcheck_failures
@@ -163,8 +163,6 @@
 ./staging/src/k8s.io/kube-aggregator/hack/verify-codegen.sh
 ./staging/src/k8s.io/metrics/hack/update-codegen.sh
 ./staging/src/k8s.io/metrics/hack/verify-codegen.sh
-./staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
-./staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
 ./test/cmd/apply.sh
 ./test/cmd/apps.sh
 ./test/cmd/authorization.sh
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
index c92b3cc9f68..44c091269a6 100755
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE})/..
-CODEGEN_PKG=${CODEGEN_PKG:-$(cd ${SCRIPT_ROOT}; ls -d -1 ./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator 2>/dev/null || echo ../code-generator)}
+SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
+CODEGEN_PKG=${CODEGEN_PKG:-$(cd "${SCRIPT_ROOT}"; ls -d -1 ./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator 2>/dev/null || echo ../code-generator)}
 
 # generate the code with:
 # --output-base    because this script should also be able to run inside the vendor dir of
 #                  k8s.io/kubernetes. The output-base is needed for the generators to output into the vendor dir
 #                  instead of the $GOPATH directly. For normal projects this can be dropped.
-${CODEGEN_PKG}/generate-groups.sh "deepcopy,client,informer,lister" \
+"${CODEGEN_PKG}/generate-groups.sh" "deepcopy,client,informer,lister" \
   k8s.io/node-api/pkg/client k8s.io/node-api/pkg/apis \
   "node:v1alpha1" \
-  --output-base "$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE})/../../.." \
-  --go-header-file ${SCRIPT_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate.go.txt
+  --output-base "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../../.." \
+  --go-header-file "${SCRIPT_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate.go.txt"
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
index d02a6fa395e..d91566e6228 100755
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
 
 DIFFROOT="${SCRIPT_ROOT}/pkg"
 TMP_DIFFROOT="${SCRIPT_ROOT}/_tmp/pkg"