diff --git a/release/scripts/mtree-to-plist.awk b/release/scripts/mtree-to-plist.awk
index 12a6bd97fd02..453c63bb54f0 100644
--- a/release/scripts/mtree-to-plist.awk
+++ b/release/scripts/mtree-to-plist.awk
@@ -1,35 +1,31 @@
 #!/usr/bin/awk
 /^[^#]/ {
 	gsub(/^\./,"", $1)
-	uname=""
-	gname=""
-	mode=""
-	flags=""
-	tags=""
+	uname = gname = mode = flags = tags = ""
 	for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {
 		if ($i ~ /^uname=/) {
 			uname=$i
-			gsub(/uname=/, "", uname);
+			gsub(/uname=/, "", uname)
 		} else if ($i ~ /^gname=/) {
 			gname=$i
-			gsub(/gname=/, "", gname);
+			gsub(/gname=/, "", gname)
 		} else if ($i ~ /^mode=/) {
 			mode=$i
-			gsub(/mode=/,"", mode);
+			gsub(/mode=/,"", mode)
 		} else if ($i ~ /^flags=/) {
 			flags=$i
-			gsub(/flags=/, "", flags);
+			gsub(/flags=/, "", flags)
 		} else if ($i ~ /^tags=/) {
 			tags=$i
-			gsub(/tags=/, "", tags);
+			gsub(/tags=/, "", tags)
 		}
 	}
 	if (length(tags) == 0)
 		next
 	if (tags ~ /package=/) {
-		gsub(/package=/,"",tags);
-		gsub(/,/, "-", tags);
-		gsub(/runtime-/, "", tags);
+		gsub(/package=/,"",tags)
+		gsub(/,/, "-", tags)
+		gsub(/runtime-/, "", tags)
 		pkg=tags
 	} else {
 		pkg=tags