diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/lesspipe/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/lesspipe/default.nix
index c7978485c7e4..5bc3f97c3c78 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/lesspipe/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/lesspipe/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, makeWrapper, perl, procps, file, gnused, bash, binutils }:
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, makeWrapper
+, perl
+, procps
+, bash
+
+# shell referenced dependencies
+, resholve
+, binutils-unwrapped
+, file
+, gnugrep
+, coreutils
+, gnused
+, gnutar
+, iconv
+, ncurses
+}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "lesspipe";
@@ -28,9 +46,65 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   installFlags = [ "DESTDIR=$(out)" ];
 
   postInstall = ''
-    for f in lesspipe.sh lesscomplete; do
-      wrapProgram "$out/bin/$f" --prefix-each PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath [ binutils file gnused procps ]}"
-    done
+    # resholve doesn't see strings in an array definition
+    substituteInPlace $out/bin/lesspipe.sh --replace 'nodash strings' "nodash ${binutils-unwrapped}/bin/strings"
+
+    ${resholve.phraseSolution "lesspipe.sh" {
+      scripts = [ "bin/lesspipe.sh" ];
+      interpreter = "${bash}/bin/bash";
+      inputs = [
+        coreutils
+        file
+        gnugrep
+        gnused
+        gnutar
+        iconv
+        procps
+        ncurses
+      ];
+      keep = [ "$prog" "$c1" "$c2" "$c3" "$c4" "$c5" "$cmd" "$colorizer" "$HOME" ];
+      fake = {
+        # script guards usage behind has_cmd test function, it's safe to leave these external and optional
+        external = [
+          "cpio" "isoinfo" "cabextract" "bsdtar" "rpm2cpio" "bsdtar" "unzip" "ar" "unrar" "rar" "7zr" "7za" "isoinfo"
+          "gzip" "bzip2" "lzip" "lzma" "xz" "brotli" "compress" "zstd" "lz4"
+          "archive_color" "bat" "batcat" "pygmentize" "source-highlight" "vimcolor" "code2color"
+
+          "w3m" "lynx" "elinks" "html2text" "dtc" "pdftotext" "pdftohtml" "pdfinfo" "ps2ascii" "procyon" "ccze"
+          "mdcat" "pandoc" "docx2txt" "libreoffice" "pptx2md" "mdcat" "xlscat" "odt2txt" "wvText" "antiword" "catdoc"
+          "broken_catppt" "sxw2txt" "groff" "mandoc" "unrtf" "dvi2tty" "pod2text" "perldoc" "h5dump" "ncdump" "matdump"
+          "djvutxt" "openssl" "gpg" "plistutil" "plutil" "id3v2" "csvlook" "jq" "zlib-flate" "lessfilter"
+        ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin [
+          # resholve only identifies this on darwin
+          # call site is gaurded by || so it's safe to leave dynamic
+          "locale"
+        ];
+        builtin = [ "setopt" ];
+      };
+      execer = [
+        "cannot:${iconv}/bin/iconv"
+      ];
+    }}
+    ${resholve.phraseSolution "lesscomplete" {
+      scripts = [ "bin/lesscomplete" ];
+      interpreter = "${bash}/bin/bash";
+      inputs = [
+        coreutils
+        file
+        gnugrep
+        gnused
+        gnutar
+      ];
+      keep = [ "$prog" "$c1" "$c2" "$c3" "$c4" "$c5" "$cmd" ];
+      fake = {
+        # script guards usage behind has_cmd test function, it's safe to leave these external and optional
+        external = [
+          "cpio" "isoinfo" "cabextract" "bsdtar" "rpm2cpio" "bsdtar" "unzip" "ar" "unrar" "rar" "7zr" "7za" "isoinfo"
+          "gzip" "bzip2" "lzip" "lzma" "xz" "brotli" "compress" "zstd" "lz4"
+        ];
+        builtin = [ "setopt" ];
+      };
+    }}
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {