diff --git a/util/ci/arch-testscript b/util/ci/arch-testscript
index b97021d9b7..b993a13e44 100644
--- a/util/ci/arch-testscript
+++ b/util/ci/arch-testscript
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
 # Python is python 3, but gnucash doesn't work with python 3. There
 # doesn't seem to be a way to tell automake to use /usr/bin/python2,
 # so we'll mock this up
-mkdir autotools_bin;
-ln -s /usr/bin/python2 autotools_bin/python;
-export PATH=/autotools_bin:"$PATH";
-echo path is "$PATH";
-echo python version is "$(python --version)";
+mkdir autotools_bin
+ln -s /usr/bin/python2 autotools_bin/python
+export PATH=/autotools_bin:"$PATH"
+echo path is "$PATH"
+echo python version is "$(python --version)"
 
 ../commonbuild
diff --git a/util/ci/commonbuild b/util/ci/commonbuild
index 07d13d0da7..526f724c56 100644
--- a/util/ci/commonbuild
+++ b/util/ci/commonbuild
@@ -1,25 +1,23 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
 
-mkdir build;
-cd build;
-export TZ="America/Los_Angeles";
-
-#mkdir -p /root/.local/share;
+mkdir build
+cd build
+export TZ="America/Los_Angeles"
 
 if [[ "$BUILDTYPE" == "cmake-make" ]]; then
     cmake ../gnucash
-    make -j 4;
-    make check || ../afterfailure;
+    make -j 4
+    make check || ../afterfailure
 elif [[ "$BUILDTYPE" == "cmake-ninja" ]]; then
     cmake ../gnucash -DWITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug -DENABLE_DEBUG=on -G Ninja
     ninja
     ninja check || ../afterfailure;
 elif [[ "$BUILDTYPE" == "autotools" ]]; then
     ../gnucash/autogen.sh;
-    ../gnucash/configure --enable-python;
+    ../gnucash/configure --enable-python
     make;
-    make check || ../afterfailure;
+    make check || ../afterfailure
 else
-    echo "Unknown buildtype: \"$BUILDTYPE\". Not building.";
+    echo "Unknown buildtype: \"$BUILDTYPE\". Not building."
 fi
 
diff --git a/util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-testscript b/util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-testscript
index a5fe7aa383..15826881f9 100644
--- a/util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-testscript
+++ b/util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-testscript
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 # -e above so that if any command has an exit code != 0, this script will
 #  exit immediately.
 
-export GTEST_ROOT=/gtest/googletest GMOCK_ROOT=/gtest/googlemock;
+export GTEST_ROOT=/gtest/googletest GMOCK_ROOT=/gtest/googlemock
 
 ../commonbuild