diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.pl b/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.pl
index 7e9ff91ebe0..638d1b2aaa1 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.pl
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-#! /run/current-system/sw/bin/perl -w
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i perl -p perl perlPackages.XMLSimple
 
 use strict;
 use List::Util qw(min);