diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index 4f9c190..c67e73e 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 # Usage: cflags-y += $(call as-instr,instr,option1,option2)
 
 as-instr = $(call try-run,\
-	echo -e "$(1)" | $(CC) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -xassembler -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
+	/bin/echo -e "$(1)" | $(CC) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -xassembler -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
 
 # cc-option
 # Usage: cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)
diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
index 39677c8..46be3c5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # Doing this once at the beginning saves a lot of time, on a cache-hot tree.
 Kconfigs="`find . -name 'Kconfig' -o -name 'Kconfig*[^~]'`"
 
-echo -e "File list \tundefined symbol used"
+/bin/echo -e "File list \tundefined symbol used"
 find $paths -name '*.[chS]' -o -name 'Makefile' -o -name 'Makefile*[^~]'| while read i
 do
 	# Output the bare Kconfig variable and the filename; the _MODULE part at
@@ -54,6 +54,6 @@
 	# beyond the purpose of this script.
 	symb_bare=`echo $symb | sed -e 's/_MODULE//'`
 	if ! grep -q "\<$symb_bare\>" $Kconfigs; then
-		echo -e "$files: \t$symb"
+		/bin/echo -e "$files: \t$symb"
 	fi
 done|sort