diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
index e7652540ab8b..3b7c0a8297e1 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils haskellPackages.cabal2nix-unstable git nix nixfmt-rfc-style -I nixpkgs=.
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils haskellPackages.cabal2nix-unstable git nixfmt-rfc-style -I nixpkgs=.
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-transitive-broken-packages.sh b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-transitive-broken-packages.sh
index 076602d6d6b9..d128433ce32b 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-transitive-broken-packages.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-transitive-broken-packages.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils jq nix -I nixpkgs=.
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils jq -I nixpkgs=.
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-hackage.sh b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-hackage.sh
index 5aa644a3d0fa..27a77d5db9df 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-hackage.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-hackage.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p nix curl jq git gnused -I nixpkgs=.
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq git gnused -I nixpkgs=.
 
 # See regenerate-hackage-packages.sh for details on the purpose of this script.
 
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-stackage.sh b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-stackage.sh
index fc33b14b799f..8401ec1f2108 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-stackage.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/update-stackage.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p nix curl jq git gnused gnugrep -I nixpkgs=.
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq git gnused gnugrep -I nixpkgs=.
 # shellcheck shell=bash
 
 set -eu -o pipefail
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/upload-nixos-package-list-to-hackage.sh b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/upload-nixos-package-list-to-hackage.sh
index 9130941a5366..cbf600d95e76 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/haskell/upload-nixos-package-list-to-hackage.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/haskell/upload-nixos-package-list-to-hackage.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#! nix-shell -i bash -p nix curl gnused -I nixpkgs=.
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p curl gnused -I nixpkgs=.
 
 # On Hackage every package description shows a category "Distributions" which
 # lists a "NixOS" version.