diff --git a/tools/dep_updaters/update-icu.sh b/tools/dep_updaters/update-icu.sh
index 75ab11817b8b4f..6949632b27f14a 100755
--- a/tools/dep_updaters/update-icu.sh
+++ b/tools/dep_updaters/update-icu.sh
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ if [ "$CHECKSUM" != "$GENERATED_CHECKSUM" ]; then
   exit 0
 fi
 
-sed -i '' -e "s|\"url\": \"\(.*\)\".*|\"url\": \"$NEW_VERSION_TGZ_URL\",|" "$TOOLS_DIR/icu/current_ver.dep"
+perl -i -pe "s|\"url\": .*|\"url\": \"$NEW_VERSION_TGZ_URL\",|" "$TOOLS_DIR/icu/current_ver.dep"
 
-sed -i '' -e "s|\"md5\": \"\(.*\)\".*|\"md5\": \"$CHECKSUM\"|" "$TOOLS_DIR/icu/current_ver.dep" 
+perl -i -pe "s|\"md5\": .*|\"md5\": \"$CHECKSUM\"|" "$TOOLS_DIR/icu/current_ver.dep"
 
 rm -rf out "$DEPS_DIR/icu" "$DEPS_DIR/icu4c*"