diff --git a/scripts/brcmImage.pl b/scripts/brcmImage.pl
index 265c1744bf..aab86d6d91 100755
--- a/scripts/brcmImage.pl
+++ b/scripts/brcmImage.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
 #
 #    Copyright (C) 2009	Henk Vergonet <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com>
 #
diff --git a/scripts/deptest.sh b/scripts/deptest.sh
index 047a0ce4d4..03da9f568e 100755
--- a/scripts/deptest.sh
+++ b/scripts/deptest.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # Automated OpenWrt package dependency checker
 #
diff --git a/scripts/feeds b/scripts/feeds
index 79b5284e9e..2b88eb8193 100755
--- a/scripts/feeds
+++ b/scripts/feeds
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
 use Getopt::Std;
 use FindBin;
 use Cwd;
diff --git a/scripts/mkits.sh b/scripts/mkits.sh
index 6b5100e1a2..8857996eba 100755
--- a/scripts/mkits.sh
+++ b/scripts/mkits.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2 or later.
 #
diff --git a/scripts/pad_image b/scripts/pad_image
index 14f1499076..b1941a28d8 100755
--- a/scripts/pad_image
+++ b/scripts/pad_image
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 function usage {
   echo "Usage: prepare_image image_type kernel_image rootfs_image header_size"
diff --git a/scripts/redboot-script.pl b/scripts/redboot-script.pl
index 123ebe32a3..e2d1264705 100755
--- a/scripts/redboot-script.pl
+++ b/scripts/redboot-script.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
 #
 # Script for generating redboot configs, based on brcmImage.pl
 #
diff --git a/scripts/remote-gdb b/scripts/remote-gdb
index cd59033e7a..52306639fc 100755
--- a/scripts/remote-gdb
+++ b/scripts/remote-gdb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;