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 ### Listing Files
 
-Do not [parse ls(1)](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs), instead us
+Do not [parse ls(1)](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs), instead use
 bash builtin functions to loop files
 
 ``` bash