diff --git a/images/macos/provision/configuration/finalize-vm.sh b/images/macos/provision/configuration/finalize-vm.sh
index 3b7f1dc67..77902ea4e 100644
--- a/images/macos/provision/configuration/finalize-vm.sh
+++ b/images/macos/provision/configuration/finalize-vm.sh
@@ -18,11 +18,7 @@ sudo chmod ugo+rwx /usr/local/opt/$USER/scripts
 sudo chown $USER:admin /usr/local/opt/$USER
 mv $HOME/image-generation/assets/* /usr/local/opt/$USER/scripts
 
-executableScripts=$(ls /usr/local/opt/$USER/scripts | grep "*\.sh")
-for script in $executableScripts
-do
-    chmod +x $script
-done
+find /usr/local/opt/$USER/scripts -type f -name "*\.sh" -exec chmod +x {} \;
 
 # Clean up npm cache which collected during image-generation
 # we have to do that here because `npm install` is run in a few different places during image-generation