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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ There's currently one provider, "group", which does all the heavy lifting.
 
 group
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-The provider uses Chef's search functionality to discover and update the group and user mappings dsh makes use of. Mappings are between accounts on the host system and the the target systems.
+The provider uses Chef's search functionality to discover and update the group and user mappings dsh makes use of. Mappings are between accounts on the host system and the target systems.
 
 # Mappings
 - Updates known_hosts on the host system with the target systems