diff --git a/first-setup.sh b/first-setup.sh
index dbb4155..0622dda 100755
--- a/first-setup.sh
+++ b/first-setup.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 # A simple file to run all instructions from the README
 ## this should be run in the root of the repository
diff --git a/parse_hlds.sh b/parse_hlds.sh
index b0c3188..f9b7898 100755
--- a/parse_hlds.sh
+++ b/parse_hlds.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
 # args = map(lambda arg: arg if x[0] in "/-" else pwd+arg, sys.argv[1:])
diff --git a/populate-db.sh b/populate-db.sh
index 400ce2e..4c0aff4 100755
--- a/populate-db.sh
+++ b/populate-db.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")/app"