diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/xen/generic.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/xen/generic.nix
index dd84f642e32d..826cd8a3d9d8 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/xen/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/xen/generic.nix
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
     # Remove in-tree qemu stuff in case we build from a tar-ball
     rm -rf tools/qemu-xen tools/qemu-xen-traditional
 
-    # Fix shebangs, mainly for build-scipts
+    # Fix shebangs, mainly for build-scripts
     # We want to do this before getting prefetched stuff to speed things up
     # (prefetched stuff has lots of files)
     find . -type f | xargs sed -i 's@/usr/bin/\(python\|perl\)@/usr/bin/env \1@g'