diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/nvim-treesitter/overrides.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/nvim-treesitter/overrides.nix
index 710528c3561c..c7cd3266d9c7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/nvim-treesitter/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/nvim-treesitter/overrides.nix
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ let
             (f (tree-sitter.builtGrammars // builtGrammars));
           copyGrammar = grammar:
             let name = lib.last (lib.splitString "-" grammar.name); in
-            "ln -s ${grammar}/parser/${name}.so $out/parser/${name}.so";
+            "ln -sf ${grammar}/parser/${name}.so $out/parser/${name}.so";
         in
         [
           (runCommand "vimplugin-treesitter-grammars"