diff --git a/scripts/github/extrinsic-ordering-filter.sh b/scripts/github/extrinsic-ordering-filter.sh
index 9c5672991036..60dcc9d59072 100755
--- a/scripts/github/extrinsic-ordering-filter.sh
+++ b/scripts/github/extrinsic-ordering-filter.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 # This script is used in a Github Workflow. It helps filtering out what is interesting
 # when comparing metadata and spot what would require a tx version bump.
 
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# shellcheck disable=SC2002
 
 FILE=$1
 
 function find_index_changes() {
-    echo "\n## Index changes\n"
-    RES=$(cat $FILE | egrep -n -i 'idx:\s*([0-9]+)\s*(->)\s*([0-9]+)' | tr -s " ")
+    printf "\n## Index changes\n"
+    RES=$(cat "$FILE" | grep -E -n -i 'idx:\s*([0-9]+)\s*(->)\s*([0-9]+)' | tr -s " ")
     if [ "$RES" ]; then
         echo "$RES" | awk '{ printf "%s\\n", $0 }'
     else
@@ -16,8 +17,8 @@ function find_index_changes() {
 }
 
 function find_deletions() {
-    echo "\n## Deletions\n"
-    RES=$(cat $FILE | grep -n '\[\-\]' | tr -s " ")
+    printf "\n## Deletions\n"
+    RES=$(cat "$FILE" | grep -n '\[\-\]' | tr -s " ")
     if [ "$RES" ]; then
         echo "$RES" | awk '{ printf "%s\\n", $0 }'
     else
@@ -26,13 +27,13 @@ function find_deletions() {
 }
 
 function find_decreases() {
-    echo "\n## Decreases\n"
-    OUT=$(cat $FILE | egrep -i -o '([0-9]+)\s*(->)\s*([0-9]+)' | awk '$1 > $3 { printf "%s;", $0 }')
-    IFS=$';' LIST=($OUT)
+    printf "\n## Decreases\n"
+    OUT=$(cat "$FILE" | grep -E -i -o '([0-9]+)\s*(->)\s*([0-9]+)' | awk '$1 > $3 { printf "%s;", $0 }')
+    IFS=$';' LIST=("$OUT")
     unset RES
     for line in "${LIST[@]}"; do
-        echo $line
-        RES="$RES\n$(cat $FILE | egrep -i -n "$line" | tr -s " ")"
+        echo "$line"
+        RES="$RES\n$(cat "$FILE" | grep -E -i -n "$line" | tr -s " ")"
     done
 
     if [ "$RES" ]; then
@@ -42,11 +43,11 @@ function find_decreases() {
     fi
 }
 
-echo "\n------------------------------ SUMMARY -------------------------------"
-echo "\n⚠️ This filter is here to help spotting changes that should be reviewed carefully."
-echo "\n⚠️ It catches only index changes, deletions and value decreases".
+printf "\n------------------------------ SUMMARY -------------------------------"
+printf "\n⚠️ This filter is here to help spotting changes that should be reviewed carefully."
+printf "\n⚠️ It catches only index changes, deletions and value decreases".
 
-find_deletions $FILE
-find_index_changes $FILE
-find_decreases $FILE
-echo "\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"
+find_deletions "$FILE"
+find_index_changes "$FILE"
+find_decreases "$FILE"
+printf "\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"