diff --git a/scripts/getCurrentVersion.sh b/scripts/getCurrentVersion.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..61522b1666
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/getCurrentVersion.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+version=$(cat lerna.json \
+  | grep version \
+  | head -1 \
+  | awk -F: '{gsub(/"/,"",$2);gsub(/[[:space:]]*/,"",$2); print $2}' \
+  | sed 's/[",]//g')
+echo $version
diff --git a/scripts/updateVersions.sh b/scripts/updateVersions.sh
index 51ad70366c..1d019fd886 100755
--- a/scripts/updateVersions.sh
+++ b/scripts/updateVersions.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-version=$(cat lerna.json \
-  | grep version \
-  | head -1 \
-  | awk -F: '{gsub(/"/,"",$2);gsub(/[[:space:]]*/,"",$2); print $2}' \
-  | sed 's/[",]//g')
+version=$(./scripts/getCurrentVersion.sh)
 echo "Setting version $version"
 yarn lerna exec "yarn version --no-git-tag-version --new-version=$version"
 echo "Updating dependencies"