diff --git a/ci/test-nightly.sh b/ci/test-nightly.sh
index b3a3295ec..329002f6d 100755
--- a/ci/test-nightly.sh
+++ b/ci/test-nightly.sh
@@ -30,18 +30,7 @@ _ cargo cov clean
 _ cargo cov build --all
 _ cargo cov test --lib
 _ cargo cov report
-
-# Generate a coverage report with grcov via lcov.
-if [[ ! -f ./grcov ]]; then
-  uname=$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
-  if [[ ${uname} = "darwin" ]]; then
-    uname="osx"
-  fi
-  uname_m=$(uname -m | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
-  name=grcov-${uname}-${uname_m}.tar.bz2
-  _ wget "https://github.com/mozilla/grcov/releases/download/v0.3.2/${name}"
-  _ tar -xjf "${name}"
-fi
+_ ./scripts/fetch-grcov.sh
 _ ./grcov . -t lcov > lcov.info
 _ genhtml -o target/cov/report-lcov --show-details --highlight --ignore-errors source --legend lcov.info
 
diff --git a/scripts/fetch-grcov.sh b/scripts/fetch-grcov.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9b1454427
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/fetch-grcov.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ ! -x ./grcov ]]; then
+  uname=$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+  if [[ $uname = darwin ]]; then
+    uname="osx"
+  fi
+  uname_m=$(uname -m | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+  name=grcov-${uname}-${uname_m}.tar.bz2
+
+  wget "https://github.com/mozilla/grcov/releases/download/v0.3.2/$name"
+  tar xjf "$name"
+fi
+
+ls -lh grcov