diff --git a/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode b/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode
index a0848f3aad..6f6b90637e 100755
--- a/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode
+++ b/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /bin/sh
+#! /bin/bash
 
 # This is just a helper script to generatePythonCode to cover
 # the three or four cases we use all the time