diff --git a/python-evtx.changes b/python-evtx.changes
index e278646..456b4c1 100644
--- a/python-evtx.changes
+++ b/python-evtx.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar 15 07:02:51 UTC 2019 - Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
+
+- fix shebang interpreter handling
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec  4 12:47:47 UTC 2018 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-evtx.spec b/python-evtx.spec
index bb9c4b4..31e705b 100644
--- a/python-evtx.spec
+++ b/python-evtx.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-evtx
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ inspired by the work of Andreas Schuster and his Perl implementation
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+find Evtx -name "*.py" | xargs sed -i '1 { /^#!/ d }'
 
 %build
 %python_build
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ inspired by the work of Andreas Schuster and his Perl implementation
 %python_install
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
 for script in evtxdump.py evtxinfo.py; do
-  sed -i -e 's:^#!%{_bindir}/env python:#!python3:' scripts/$script
+  sed -i -e 's:^#!/usr/bin/env python:#!/usr/bin/python3:' scripts/$script
   dos2unix scripts/$script
   install -m 0755 scripts/$script %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/$script
 done