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@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Notes:
 
 - In ssh, knowing how to port tunnel with `-L` or `-D` (and occasionally `-R`) is useful, e.g. to access web sites from a remote server.
 
-- It can be useful to make a few optimizations to your ssh configuration; for example, this `~/.ssh/config` contains settings to avoid dropped connections in certain network environments, use compression (which is helpful with scp over low-bandwidth connections), and multiplex channels to the same server with a local control file:
+- It can be useful to make a few optimizations to your ssh configuration; for example, this `~/.ssh/config` contains settings to avoid dropped connections in certain network environments, uses compression (which is helpful with scp over low-bandwidth connections), and multiplex channels to the same server with a local control file:
 ```
       TCPKeepAlive=yes
       ServerAliveInterval=15
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ Notes:
 
 - If you must handle XML, `xmlstarlet` is old but good.
 
-- For JSON, use `jq`.
+- For JSON, use [`jq`](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/).
 
 - For Excel or CSV files, [csvkit](https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit) provides `in2csv`, `csvcut`, `csvjoin`, `csvgrep`, etc.
 
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ A few examples of piecing together commands:
 
 - `look`: find English words (or lines in a file) beginning with a string
 
-- `cut` and `paste` and `join`: data manipulation
+- `cut`, `paste` and `join`: data manipulation
 
 - `fmt`: format text paragraphs