diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md
index aba1d1d75..c5cba518d 100644
--- a/docs/api.md
+++ b/docs/api.md
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ We want to create a virtual machine with the following characteristics:
   `/opt/clh/images/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.raw`
 
 ```shell
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i \
      -X PUT 'http://localhost/api/v1/vm.create'  \
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i \
 Once the VM is created, we can boot it:
 
 ```shell
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i -X PUT 'http://localhost/api/v1/vm.boot'
 ```
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i -X PUT 'http://localhost/api/v1
 We can fetch information about any VM, as soon as it's created:
 
 ```shell
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i \
      -X GET 'http://localhost/api/v1/vm.info' \
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i \
 We can reboot a VM that's already booted:
 
 ```shell
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i -X PUT 'http://localhost/api/v1/vm.reboot'
 ```
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i -X PUT 'http://localhost/api/v1
 Once booted, we can shut a VM down from the REST API:
 
 ```shell
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i -X PUT 'http://localhost/api/v1/vm.shutdown'
 ```
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ APIs work together, let's look at a complete VM creation flow, from the
    [REST API](#rest-api) in order to creates a virtual machine:
    ```
    shell
-   #!/bin/bash
+   #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 	curl --unix-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock -i \
 		-X PUT 'http://localhost/api/v1/vm.create'  \
diff --git a/scripts/check-image-compatibility.sh b/scripts/check-image-compatibility.sh
index 22063c827..16c84d40f 100644
--- a/scripts/check-image-compatibility.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-image-compatibility.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 : '
     This script checks if an image is compatible with Cloud Hypervisor.
     At first, it detects the image type(raw or qcow2),
diff --git a/scripts/common-aarch64.sh b/scripts/common-aarch64.sh
index 6db3b7a47..4b545ee32 100644
--- a/scripts/common-aarch64.sh
+++ b/scripts/common-aarch64.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 WORKLOADS_DIR="$HOME/workloads"
 
diff --git a/scripts/create-cloud-init.sh b/scripts/create-cloud-init.sh
index 2022c0cb2..0bc379a36 100755
--- a/scripts/create-cloud-init.sh
+++ b/scripts/create-cloud-init.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 rm -f /tmp/ubuntu-cloudinit.img
diff --git a/scripts/dev_cli.sh b/scripts/dev_cli.sh
index 35d6f39ca..877c24b68 100755
--- a/scripts/dev_cli.sh
+++ b/scripts/dev_cli.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 # Copyright © 2020 Intel Corporation
diff --git a/scripts/prepare_vdpa.sh b/scripts/prepare_vdpa.sh
index 73441ebf3..2523e569a 100755
--- a/scripts/prepare_vdpa.sh
+++ b/scripts/prepare_vdpa.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 sudo apt install -y libncurses-dev gawk flex bison openssl libssl-dev dkms libelf-dev libudev-dev libpci-dev libiberty-dev autoconf git make dpkg-dev libmnl-dev pkg-config iproute2
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh
index 3dd38b780..10b0fe028 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_live_migration.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_live_migration.sh
index b6f004cf1..499fd9ef4 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_live_migration.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_live_migration.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_rate_limiter.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_rate_limiter.sh
index 0e78faca3..61e39d07b 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_rate_limiter.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_rate_limiter.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_sgx.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_sgx.sh
index d7bded779..64c729821 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_sgx.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_sgx.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_vfio.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_vfio.sh
index 894cdb3f7..b9bdbff3a 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_vfio.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_vfio.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 # This set of vfio tests require to be ran on a specific machine with
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ process_common_args "$@"
 
 WORKLOADS_DIR="$HOME/workloads"
 
-download_hypervisor_fw 
+download_hypervisor_fw
 
 CFLAGS=""
 if [[ "${BUILD_TARGET}" == "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl" ]]; then
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_aarch64.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_aarch64.sh
index 01932a063..d74619541 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_aarch64.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_aarch64.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_x86_64.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_x86_64.sh
index d529af796..520c8bccf 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_x86_64.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_windows_x86_64.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh
index f389d7227..cec9836e0 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_metrics.sh b/scripts/run_metrics.sh
index 18365848a..1c4e13646 100755
--- a/scripts/run_metrics.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_metrics.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -x
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
diff --git a/scripts/run_openapi_tests.sh b/scripts/run_openapi_tests.sh
index 04ca14d59..401cc6cd1 100755
--- a/scripts/run_openapi_tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_openapi_tests.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
 set -x
 
diff --git a/scripts/run_unit_tests.sh b/scripts/run_unit_tests.sh
index 1f4432208..564f7d705 100755
--- a/scripts/run_unit_tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_unit_tests.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 source $HOME/.cargo/env
 source $(dirname "$0")/test-util.sh
diff --git a/scripts/test-util.sh b/scripts/test-util.sh
index fa744d1f3..bacf8e040 100644
--- a/scripts/test-util.sh
+++ b/scripts/test-util.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 hypervisor="kvm"
 test_filter=""