diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/filters.nix b/pkgs/misc/cups/filters.nix
index 8a0406203aeb..524662a0ee6c 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/cups/filters.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/filters.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, cups, poppler, fontconfig
-, libjpeg, libpng, perl, ijs, qpdf, dbus }:
+, libjpeg, libpng, perl, ijs, qpdf, dbus, substituteAll, bash }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "cups-filters-${version}";
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       substituteInPlace filter/gstoraster.c --replace execve execvpe
     '';
 
+  patches = [
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./longer-shell-path.patch;
+      bash = "${bash}/bin/bash";
+    })
+  ];
+
   postInstall =
     ''
       for i in $out/lib/cups/filter/{pstopdf,texttops,imagetops}; do
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/longer-shell-path.patch b/pkgs/misc/cups/longer-shell-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a15fd4832258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/longer-shell-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/filter/foomatic-rip/foomaticrip.c b/filter/foomatic-rip/foomaticrip.c
+index 1c019aa..431d2f9 100644
+--- a/filter/foomatic-rip/foomaticrip.c
++++ b/filter/foomatic-rip/foomaticrip.c
+@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ char cupsfilterpath[PATH_MAX] = "/usr/local/lib/cups/filter:"
+                                 "/opt/cups/filter:"
+                                 "/usr/lib/cups/filter";
+ 
+-char modern_shell[64] = "/bin/bash";
++char modern_shell[128] = "@bash@";
+ 
+ void config_set_option(const char *key, const char *value)
+ {