diff --git a/syntax/sh.nanorc b/syntax/sh.nanorc
index 5346808d0c886f7d7b5c9b1ba1cda097cb12cbe2..000fb540c29372c0fc127eb0a6dc0be362a57519 100644
--- a/syntax/sh.nanorc
+++ b/syntax/sh.nanorc
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ color green "\<(declare|eval|exec|export|let|local)\>"
 color green "[{}():;|`$<>!=&\\]" "(\]|\[)"
 color green "-[Ldefgruwx]\>"
 color green "-(eq|ne|gt|lt|ge|le|s|n|z)\>"
-color brightblue "\<(awk|cat|cd|ch(grp|mod|own)|cp|echo|env|grep|install|ln|make|mkdir|mv|popd|printf|pushd|rm|rmdir|sed|set|tar|touch|umask|unset)\>"
+color brightblue "\<(awk|cat|cd|ch(grp|mod|own)|cp|cut|echo|env|grep|head|install|ln|make|mkdir|mv|popd|printf|pushd|rm|rmdir|sed|set|sort|tail|tar|touch|umask|unset)\>"
 
 # Basic variable names (no braces).
 color brightred "\$[-0-9@*#?$!]" "\$[[:alpha:]_][[:alnum:]_]*"