diff --git a/files/scripts/configdb-load.sh b/files/scripts/configdb-load.sh
index 42bb9959bc..5ba2e0e0bc 100755
--- a/files/scripts/configdb-load.sh
+++ b/files/scripts/configdb-load.sh
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ if [ -r /etc/sonic/config_db.json ]; then
     sonic-cfggen -j /etc/sonic/config_db.json --write-to-db
 fi
 
-echo -en "SELECT 4\nSET CONFIG_DB_INITIALIZED true" | redis-cli
-
+redis-cli -n 4 SET "CONFIG_DB_INITIALIZED" "1"
diff --git a/src/sonic-utilities b/src/sonic-utilities
index ce9a36e7d4..fe6d04328e 160000
--- a/src/sonic-utilities
+++ b/src/sonic-utilities
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ce9a36e7d459025bc0d39d744c078f60989f3556
+Subproject commit fe6d04328e5a1c4fdba4b35821f2d66475a9f3b0