diff --git a/ezctl b/ezctl
index 1b15eb502..3e0075df8 100755
--- a/ezctl
+++ b/ezctl
@@ -149,23 +149,25 @@ function new() {
     cp example/config.yml "clusters/$1/config.yml"
 
     logger debug "set versions"
-    k8sVer=$(grep 'K8S_BIN_VER=v' ezdown|cut -d'v' -f2)
-    calicoVer=$(grep 'calicoVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    ciliumVer=$(grep 'ciliumVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    flannelVer=$(grep 'flannelVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    kubeRouterVer=$(grep 'kubeRouterVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    kubeOvnVer=$(grep 'kubeOvnVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    corednsVer=$(grep 'corednsVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    dnsNodeCacheVer=$(grep 'dnsNodeCacheVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    dashboardVer=$(grep 'dashboardVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    dashboardMetricsScraperVer=$(grep 'dashboardMetricsScraperVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    metricsVer=$(grep 'metricsVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    localpathProvisionerVer=$(grep 'localpathProvisionerVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    nfsProvisionerVer=$(grep 'nfsProvisionerVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    pauseVer=$(grep 'pauseVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    promChartVer=$(grep 'promChartVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    kubeappsVer=$(grep 'kubeappsVer=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
-    harborVer=$(grep 'HARBOR_VER=' ezdown|cut -d'=' -f2)
+    eval $(sed '/[ver|VER]=.*\./!d;s|=v|=|' ezdown)
+    k8sVer="$K8S_BIN_VER"
+    harborVer="$HARBOR_VER"
+    # these variables were imported with eval and have the same name in ezdown, setting value to itself is pointless so commented out and kept for reference
+    #calicoVer="$calicoVer"
+    #ciliumVer="$ciliumVer"
+    #flannelVer="$flannelVer"
+    #kubeRouterVer="$kubeRouterVer"
+    #kubeOvnVer="$kubeOvnVer"
+    #corednsVer="$corednsVer"
+    #dnsNodeCacheVer="$dnsNodeCacheVer"
+    #dashboardVer="$dashboardVer"
+    #dashboardMetricsScraperVer="$dashboardMetricsScraperVer"
+    #metricsVer="$metricsVer"
+    #localpathProvisionerVer="$localpathProvisionerVer"
+    #nfsProvisionerVer="$nfsProvisionerVer"
+    #pauseVer="$pauseVer"
+    #promChartVer="$promChartVer"
+    #kubeappsVer="$kubeappsVer"
     registryMirror=true
 
     grep registry-mirrors /etc/docker/daemon.json > /dev/null 2>&1 || { logger debug "disable registry mirrors"; registryMirror=false; }