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@@ -242,11 +242,8 @@ A few examples of piecing together commands:
       cat a b b | sort | uniq -u > c   # c is set difference a - b
 ```
 
-- Use `grep . *` to visually examine all contents of all files in a directory.  Useful for directories filled with config settings, like /sys /proc /etc.
-```sh
-      cd /proc/sys/net/ipv4
-      grep . *
-```
+- Use `grep . *` to visually examine all contents of all files in a directory, e.g. for directories filled with config settings, like `/sys`, `/proc`, `/etc`.
+
 
 - Summing all numbers in the third column of a text file (this is probably 3X faster and 3X less code than equivalent Python):
 ```sh