diff --git a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_bert_hf_to_gguf.py b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_bert_hf_to_gguf.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index f3fa8a2d..16d6f457
--- a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_bert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_bert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
diff --git a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_mpt_hf_to_gguf.py b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_mpt_hf_to_gguf.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 1b5d1367..a49ceb36
--- a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_mpt_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_mpt_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 # Convert Hugging Face fine-tuned bloom-like models to ggml format
 #
 # Usage:
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ def bytes_to_unicode():
 
 
 if not 3 <= len(sys.argv) < 5:
-    print("Usage: python {} model-name dir-output [ftype]".format(Path(__file__).name))
+    print("Usage: {} model-name dir-output [ftype]".format(Path(__file__).name))
     print("  model-name: name of the model to convert. Example: 'bigscience/bloomz-560m'")
     print("  dir-output: directory where the output file will be written")
     print("  ftype == 0 -> float32")
diff --git a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_replit_hf_to_gguf.py b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_replit_hf_to_gguf.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index e436e8ac..38b504ad
--- a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_replit_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_replit_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json