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@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ Bandit allows specifying the path of a baseline report to compare against using
   
    bandit -b BASELINE
 
-This is useful for ignoring known vulnerabilities that you believe are non-issues (e.g. a cleartext password in a unit test). To generate a baseline report simply run Bandit with the output format set to ``json`` (only JSON-formatted files are accepted as a baseline) an output file path specified:
+This is useful for ignoring known vulnerabilities that you believe are non-issues (e.g. a cleartext password in a unit test). To generate a baseline report simply run Bandit with the output format set to ``json`` (only JSON-formatted files are accepted as a baseline) and output file path specified:
 
 ::