diff --git a/bin/local-master-backup.sh b/bin/local-master-backup.sh
index f368e4a4d7c..e1a80cd3a7e 100755
--- a/bin/local-master-backup.sh
+++ b/bin/local-master-backup.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #/**
 # * Copyright 2007 The Apache Software Foundation
 # *
diff --git a/bin/local-regionservers.sh b/bin/local-regionservers.sh
index 38d9ffc4eaa..f744ee1727c 100755
--- a/bin/local-regionservers.sh
+++ b/bin/local-regionservers.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #/**
 # * Copyright 2007 The Apache Software Foundation
 # *