diff --git a/bazel/devbuild/prepare_developer_workspace.sh.in b/bazel/devbuild/prepare_developer_workspace.sh.in
index b1fed4b7c..bd3fa53e8 100755
--- a/bazel/devbuild/prepare_developer_workspace.sh.in
+++ b/bazel/devbuild/prepare_developer_workspace.sh.in
@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ ln -sf "$(replace_prefix "${host_cache}" "${builder_cache}" "${cdbg}")" "${workd
 ln -sf "$(replace_prefix "${host_cache}" "${builder_cache}" "${container_sums}")" "${workdir}/container_sums.sha256"
 ln -sf "$(replace_prefix "${host_cache}" "${builder_cache}" "${cli}")" "${workdir}/constellation"
 
-build_version=$("${workdir}"/constellation version | grep ^Version: | awk '{print $2}')
+build_version=$("${cli}" version | grep ^Version: | awk '{print $2}')
 if [[ ! -f "${workdir}/constellation-conf.yaml" ]]; then
   echo "constellation-conf.yaml not present in workspace"
   echo "Build version: ${build_version}"
 else
-  $yq -i eval ".microserviceVersion=\"${build_version}\"" ./constellation-conf.yaml
+  ${yq} -i eval ".microserviceVersion=\"${build_version}\"" ./constellation-conf.yaml
   echo "Microservice version updated to ${build_version} in constellation-conf.yaml"
 fi