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backup/README

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 obstinate-rsync.sh is a simple script that transfers a single directory
 (your home directory, by default) to a remote host, using rsync. You can
 specify exclude patterns in a file (~/.backup-excludes by default). The
-transfer will be reattempted until it succeed.
+transfer will be reattempted until it succeeds.
 
 Edit the script to configure the protocol, host, directories, etc.
 

cluster/README

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ for example:
 priam
 ```
 
-The scrits based on SSH use the local user's login name as remote login;
+The scripts based on SSH use the local user's login name as remote login;
 this can be changed using the ``-l`` option, that must appear before the
 hosts' list on the command line, for example:
 
@@ -59,16 +59,16 @@ Dependency: parallel-ssh (pssh)
 Deploy one or more files in parallel on every host of the hosts' list.
 The files are copied in the remote user's home directory.
 
-By default, the files are transfered one by one, to be sure to notice
+By default, the files are transferred one by one, to make sure you notice
-the errors for each file (bad permissions, out of space, etc.), but the
+the errors for each file (bad permissions, out of space, etc.), but you
--P option allows to transfer them all together.
+can use the -P switch to transfer them all at once (faster).
 
 While it is possible to transfer directories with the default option, to
 synchronise directories one would rather use the -r option, that uses
 prsync rather than pscp to transfer the files. With the -R option, the
 remote files that are not in the local copy will be deleted (rsync's
---delete option). With both options, the transfer is done with rsync's
+--delete option). In both cases, the transfer is done with rsync's -a
--a (archive) option.
+(archive) option.
 
 Please note that unlike rsync, prsync cannot handle multiple local
 files, therefore the -P option is ignored when passed along with -r or

compression_utils/README

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 The lz.sh script emulates and extends commands lz and uz from the
 mtools.
 
-NOTE: although more powerful than their mtools equivalent, you should
+NOTE: although lz.sh is more powerful than mtools' lz and uz, you should
-probably use als and aunpack from the atool package rather than these
+probably use als and aunpack from the atool package instead; they are
-commands; they are much better and there are several other useful
+much better and atool provides several other useful commands as well.
-commands provided by atool. This script is still useful when you can't
+This script is still useful when you can't install Perl (atool is
-install Perl (atool ist written in Perl).
+written in Perl).
 
 This script handles the following archive formats through the standards
 options of GNU Tar:
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ options of GNU Tar:
 - tar.xz (txz)
 - tar.lzma (tlz)
 - tar.Z (taz)
+
 Note that you need GNU Tar, at least version 1.20 to support LZMA
 compressed archives, and version 1.22 for XZ compressed ones.
 
@@ -50,4 +51,4 @@ file is removed.
 NOTE: the atool package provides the arepack command, which can
 recompress to several formats and not only to xz. xzize has the
 advantage to recompress on the fly rather than unpacking the archive
-entirely on the file system and repacking it after.
+entirely on the file system and repacking it afterwards.

git/README

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ One can edit the options into the script to change the message displayed
 at the top of the changelog, and the number of line to separate two tag
 messages.
 
-The changelog is displayed on the standard output, in revese order
+The changelog is displayed on the standard output, in reverse order
 (higher version numbers first), whereas the error output displays the
 included or skipped tag names (i.e. those which do not correspond to the
 pattern).
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ reset.
 Usage:
  git-cherry-move source_branch destination_branch [ reset-arg ]
 
-reset-arg is passed as the first argument of reset, so pleas be careful!
+reset-arg is passed as the first argument of reset, so please be careful!
 
 To move the last commit of source_branch on top of destination_branch,
 you can type the following: