diff --git a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
index 8bcb9e26c7bc..90137319c50a 100755
--- a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
+++ b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
+#!/usr/bin/env -S gawk -f
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
 # Script to check sysctl documentation against source files
diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
index f2be0ff9a738..7a5b546ece16 100755
--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/awk -f
+#!/usr/bin/env -S awk -f
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
 	{
diff --git a/scripts/parse-maintainers.pl b/scripts/parse-maintainers.pl
index 2ca4eb3f190d..9515765158fa 100755
--- a/scripts/parse-maintainers.pl
+++ b/scripts/parse-maintainers.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/env -S perl -w
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
 use strict;
diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index 0968a3070eff..345b92f71d2d 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/awk -f
+#!/usr/bin/env -S awk -f
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 # Before running this script please ensure that your PATH is
 # typical as you use for compilation/installation. I use