Neovim Autocmd to recognise a BASH script by its shebang
I wrote an autocmd for Neovim to automatically set the filetype to ‘sh’ when opening a BASH script identified by its shebang line. It’s pretty cool, if you ask me.
Published on 01 Feb 2026
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