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diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index 3b163638..35bed9a2 100644
--- a/bash.html.markdown
+++ b/bash.html.markdown
@@ -235,11 +235,13 @@ uniq -d file.txt
cut -d ',' -f 1 file.txt
# replaces every occurrence of 'okay' with 'great' in file.txt, (regex compatible)
sed -i 's/okay/great/g' file.txt
-# print to stdout all lines of file.txt which match some regex, the example prints lines which begin with "foo" and end in "bar"
+# print to stdout all lines of file.txt which match some regex
+# The example prints lines which begin with "foo" and end in "bar"
grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
# pass the option "-c" to instead print the number of lines matching the regex
grep -c "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
-# if you literally want to search for the string, and not the regex, use fgrep (or grep -F)
+# if you literally want to search for the string,
+# and not the regex, use fgrep (or grep -F)
fgrep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt