diff --git a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf_template.py b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf_template.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index c66224870..6bb1c1021
--- a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf_template.py
+++ b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf_template.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 gguf_template.py - example file to extract the chat template from the models metadata
 """