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 # Testing Zipr
 
-Test  the binary rewriting infrastructure by rewriting /bin/ls
+Test the binary rewriting infrastructure by rewriting /bin/ls
 ```
 cd /tmp
 $PSZ /bin/ls ls.zipr -c rida