diff --git a/vendors/opam-repository-tools/rewrite-local-opam-repository.sh b/vendors/opam-repository-tools/rewrite-local-opam-repository.sh
index 54b7b0693..01b196df9 100755
--- a/vendors/opam-repository-tools/rewrite-local-opam-repository.sh
+++ b/vendors/opam-repository-tools/rewrite-local-opam-repository.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ main(){
   mkdir vendors/ligo-opam-repository-local-generated
   cp -a index.tar.gz packages repo urls.txt vendors/ligo-opam-repository-local-generated
   cd vendors/ligo-opam-repository-local-generated
-  grep -r --null -l src: | grep -z 'opam$' | tr '\0' '\n'
   grep -r --null -l src: | grep -z 'opam$' | xargs -0 \
     sed -i -e 's~src:  *"https://gitlab.com/ligolang/ligo/-/archive/master/ligo\.tar\.gz"~src: "file://'"$root_dir"'"~'
   # TODO: run the update.sh script adequately to regenerate the index.tar.gz etc. in the local repo