diff --git a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_gptj_to_gguf.py b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_gptj_to_gguf.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 0e3516b4..1377c9a7
--- a/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_gptj_to_gguf.py
+++ b/gpt4all-backend/scripts/convert_gptj_to_gguf.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 # Convert GPT-J-6B h5 transformer model to ggml format
 #
 # Load the model using GPTJForCausalLM.