Spelling and grammar

rjnagal · Dec 13, 2013 · 82ab3fe · 82ab3fe
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 websocketd
 ==========
 
-`websocketd` is a small command line tool that will wrap an existing command line interface program, and allow it to be accessed
-via a WebSocket.
+`websocketd` is a small command-line tool that will wrap an existing command-line interface program, and allow it to be accessed via a WebSocket.
 
-WebSocket capable applications can now be built very easily. So long as you can write an executable program that reads `STDIN` and writes `STDOUT`, you
-can build a WebSocket server. Do it in Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, .NET, C, Go, PHP, Java, Clojure, Scala, Groovy, Expect, Awk, VBScript,
-Haskell, Lua, R, whatever! No networking libraries necessary.
+WebSocket-capable applications can now be built very easily. As long as you can write an executable program that reads `STDIN` and writes to `STDOUT`, you can build a WebSocket server. Do it in Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, .NET, C, Go, PHP, Java, Clojure, Scala, Groovy, Expect, Awk, VBScript, Haskell, Lua, R, whatever! No networking libraries necessary.
 
 Details
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-Upon startup, `websocketd` will start a WebSocket server on the specified port, and listen for connections.
+Upon startup, `websocketd` will start a WebSocket server on a specified port, and listen for connections.
 
 Upon a connection, it will fork the appropriate process, and disconnect the process when the WebSocket connection closes (and vice-versa).
 
-Any message sent from the WebSocket client will be piped to the process `STDIN` stream, followed by a `\n` newline.
+Any message sent from the WebSocket client will be piped to the process's `STDIN` stream, followed by a `\n` newline.
 
 Any text printed by the process to `STDOUT` shall be sent as a WebSocket message whenever a `\n` newline is encountered.
 
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 Quickstart
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-To get started, we'll create a WebSocket endpoint that will accept connections, then send back
-messages, counting to 10 with 1 second pause between each one, before disconnecting.
+To get started, we'll create a WebSocket endpoint that will accept connections, then send back messages, counting to 10 with 1 second pause between each one, before disconnecting.
 
 To show how simple it is, let's do it in Bash!
 
@@ -44,8 +40,7 @@ for COUNT in $(seq 1 10); do
 done
 ```
 
-Before turning it into a WebSocket server, let's test it from the command line. The beauty of `websocketd` is servers
-work equally well on the command line, or in shell scripts, as they do in the server - with no modifications required.
+Before turning it into a WebSocket server, let's test it from the command line. The beauty of `websocketd` is that servers work equally well in the command line, or in shell scripts, as they do in the server - with no modifications required.
 
 ```sh
 $ chmod +x count.sh