diff --git a/torchx/components/utils.py b/torchx/components/utils.py
index 62bf33664..e64069a14 100644
--- a/torchx/components/utils.py
+++ b/torchx/components/utils.py
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ def sh(
     env: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
     max_retries: int = 0,
     mounts: Optional[List[str]] = None,
+    entrypoint: Optional[str] = None,
 ) -> specs.AppDef:
     """
     Runs the provided command via sh. Currently sh does not support
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ def sh(
         max_retries: the number of scheduler retries allowed
         mounts: mounts to mount into the worker environment/container (ex. type=<bind/volume>,src=/host,dst=/job[,readonly]).
                 See scheduler documentation for more info.
+        entrypoint: the entrypoint to use for the command (defaults to sh)
     """
 
     escaped_args = " ".join(shlex.quote(arg) for arg in args)
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ def sh(
             specs.Role(
                 name="sh",
                 image=image,
-                entrypoint="sh",
+                entrypoint=entrypoint or "sh",
                 args=["-c", escaped_args],
                 num_replicas=num_replicas,
                 resource=specs.resource(cpu=cpu, gpu=gpu, memMB=memMB, h=h),