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diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index 08182c2c..191f916a 100644
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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ echo $Variable
echo "$Variable"
echo '$Variable'
# When you use the variable itself — assign it, export it, or else — you write
-# its name without $. If you want to use variable's value, you should use $.
+# its name without $. If you want to use the variable's value, you should use $.
# Note that ' (single quote) won't expand the variables!
# String substitution in variables
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"}
# Builtin variables:
# There are some useful builtin variables, like
-echo "Last program return value: $?"
+echo "Last program's return value: $?"
echo "Script's PID: $$"
-echo "Number of arguments: $#"
-echo "Scripts arguments: $@"
-echo "Scripts arguments separated in different variables: $1 $2..."
+echo "Number of arguments passed to script: $#"
+echo "All arguments passed to script: $@"
+echo "Script's arguments separated into different variables: $1 $2..."
# Reading a value from input:
echo "What's your name?"
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ fi
# Expressions are denoted with the following format:
echo $(( 10 + 5 ))
-# Unlike other programming languages, bash is a shell — so it works in a context
-# of current directory. You can list files and directories in the current
+# Unlike other programming languages, bash is a shell so it works in the context
+# of a current directory. You can list files and directories in the current
# directory with the ls command:
ls
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
grep -c "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
# if you literally want to search for the string,
# and not the regex, use fgrep (or grep -F)
-fgrep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
+fgrep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt
# Read Bash shell builtins documentation with the bash 'help' builtin: