diff --git a/script/build-grammars-tarball b/script/build-grammars-tarball
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
+rm -rf ./linguist-grammars
+./script/grammar-compiler compile -o linguist-grammars || true
+tar -zcvf linguist-grammars.tar.gz linguist-grammars
+
+