diff --git a/multinode-demo/client.sh b/multinode-demo/client.sh
index 0e6e8ff739d773..d3d9ebb7f11e8c 100755
--- a/multinode-demo/client.sh
+++ b/multinode-demo/client.sh
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ rsync_leader_url=$(rsync_url "$leader")
 
 set -ex
 mkdir -p $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR
-rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/leader.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
-rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config-private/mint.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
+$rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/leader.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
+$rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config-private/mint.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086 # $solana_client_demo should not be quoted
 exec $solana_client_demo \
diff --git a/multinode-demo/common.sh b/multinode-demo/common.sh
index 03f97ca2a713b8..dbd0ab9ab0f349 100644
--- a/multinode-demo/common.sh
+++ b/multinode-demo/common.sh
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
 # Disable complaints about unused variables in this file:
 # shellcheck disable=2034
 
+rsync=rsync
 if [[ -d "$SNAP" ]]; then # Running inside a Linux Snap?
   solana_program() {
     declare program="$1"
     printf "%s/command-%s.wrapper" "$SNAP" "$program"
   }
+  rsync="$SNAP"/bin/rsync
   SOLANA_CUDA="$(snapctl get enable-cuda)"
 
 elif [[ -n "$USE_SNAP" ]]; then # Use the Linux Snap binaries
diff --git a/multinode-demo/drone.sh b/multinode-demo/drone.sh
index d2677dd113edaf..74f7dcdfac701a 100755
--- a/multinode-demo/drone.sh
+++ b/multinode-demo/drone.sh
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ fi
 rsync_leader_url=$(rsync_url "$leader")
 set -ex
 mkdir -p $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR
-rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/leader.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
-rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config-private/mint.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
+$rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/leader.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
+$rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config-private/mint.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086 # $solana_drone should not be quoted
 exec $solana_drone \
diff --git a/multinode-demo/validator.sh b/multinode-demo/validator.sh
index 5735895800a4f0..2c40c03a4c1afb 100755
--- a/multinode-demo/validator.sh
+++ b/multinode-demo/validator.sh
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ rsync_leader_url=$(rsync_url "$leader")
 set -ex
 SOLANA_LEADER_CONFIG_DIR="$SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR"/leader-config
 rm -rf "$SOLANA_LEADER_CONFIG_DIR"
-rsync -vPrz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/ "$SOLANA_LEADER_CONFIG_DIR"
+$rsync -vPrz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/ "$SOLANA_LEADER_CONFIG_DIR"
 ls -lh "$SOLANA_LEADER_CONFIG_DIR"
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086 # $program should not be quoted
diff --git a/multinode-demo/wallet.sh b/multinode-demo/wallet.sh
index 4e737513829b39..efab71fd065e8d 100755
--- a/multinode-demo/wallet.sh
+++ b/multinode-demo/wallet.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ rsync_leader_url=$(rsync_url "$leader")
 set -e
 mkdir -p $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR
 if [[ ! -r $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/leader.json ]]; then
-  rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/leader.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
+  $rsync -vPz "$rsync_leader_url"/config/leader.json $SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/
 fi
 
 client_json=$SOLANA_CONFIG_DIR/client.json