diff --git a/files/image_config/procdockerstatsd/procdockerstatsd b/files/image_config/procdockerstatsd/procdockerstatsd
index 66d2d45009d5..a7bdcd6e6ce6 100644
--- a/files/image_config/procdockerstatsd/procdockerstatsd
+++ b/files/image_config/procdockerstatsd/procdockerstatsd
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# !/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 '''
 procdockerstatsd
 Daemon which periodically gathers process and docker statistics and pushes the data to STATE_DB