diff --git a/tools/hsbench/scripts/CorpusBuilder.py b/tools/hsbench/scripts/CorpusBuilder.py
index 5baed2bd..da2d593f 100755
--- a/tools/hsbench/scripts/CorpusBuilder.py
+++ b/tools/hsbench/scripts/CorpusBuilder.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 '''
 A module to construct corpora databases for the Hyperscan benchmarker
diff --git a/tools/hsbench/scripts/gutenbergCorpus.py b/tools/hsbench/scripts/gutenbergCorpus.py
index fa1b1570..62752a4d 100755
--- a/tools/hsbench/scripts/gutenbergCorpus.py
+++ b/tools/hsbench/scripts/gutenbergCorpus.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 '''
 This script creates a Hyperscan benchmarking corpus database from a supplied
diff --git a/tools/hsbench/scripts/linebasedCorpus.py b/tools/hsbench/scripts/linebasedCorpus.py
index bde20e39..b27f8674 100755
--- a/tools/hsbench/scripts/linebasedCorpus.py
+++ b/tools/hsbench/scripts/linebasedCorpus.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 '''
 Simple script to take a file full of lines of text and push them into a