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-rw-r--r--docs/SECURITY.md2
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diff --git a/docs/BUILDING.md b/docs/BUILDING.md
index cb26059..69a997c 100644
--- a/docs/BUILDING.md
+++ b/docs/BUILDING.md
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ External dependencies are auto-detected by default, but you can build `--with` o
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[`pkg-config`] is used, if available, to detect these libraries and any additional build flags they may require.
-If this is undesireable, disable it by setting `PKG_CONFIG` to the empty string (`./configure PKG_CONFIG=""`).
+If this is undesirable, disable it by setting `PKG_CONFIG` to the empty string (`./configure PKG_CONFIG=""`).
[`pkg-config`]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index ec3daab..a7136cf 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
- Breadth-first search could become highly unbalanced, negating many of the benefits of `bfs`
- - On non-{Linux,FreeBSD} plaforms, directories could stay open longer than necessary, consuming extra memory
+ - On non-{Linux,FreeBSD} platforms, directories could stay open longer than necessary, consuming extra memory
[#107]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/pull/107
diff --git a/docs/SECURITY.md b/docs/SECURITY.md
index 7bcb5e6..dd3277a 100644
--- a/docs/SECURITY.md
+++ b/docs/SECURITY.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Anyone with enough control over the command line of `bfs` or any `find`-compatib
> It is *always* unsafe to allow *any* other part of the command line to be affected by untrusted input.
> Use the `-f` flag, or `-files0-from`, to ensure that the input is interpreted as a path.
-This still has security implications, incuding:
+This still has security implications, including:
- **Information disclosure:** an attacker may learn whether particular files exist by observing `bfs`'s output, exit status, or even side channels like execution time.
- **Denial of service:** large directory trees or slow/network storage may cause `bfs` to consume excessive system resources.
diff --git a/docs/USAGE.md b/docs/USAGE.md
index 70f8475..16aeaf6 100644
--- a/docs/USAGE.md
+++ b/docs/USAGE.md
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ For expressions like `-name`, that's all they do.
But some expressions, called *actions*, have other side effects.
If no actions are included in the expression, `bfs` adds the `-print` action automatically, which is why the above examples actually print any output.
-The default `-print` is supressed if any actions are given explicitly.
+The default `-print` is suppressed if any actions are given explicitly.
Available actions include printing with alternate formats (`-ls`, `-printf`, etc.), executing commands (`-exec`, `-execdir`, etc.), deleting files (`-delete`), and stopping the search (`-quit`, `-exit`).