diff --git a/scripts/whitespace.pl b/scripts/whitespace.pl
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 0340d25fb..cc7c6511b
--- a/scripts/whitespace.pl
+++ b/scripts/whitespace.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /usr/bin/perl
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 
 my $input = $ARGV[0];
 my $source = `clang-format $input`;