diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml
index 3d12425e..97d9ec10 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ More Scripts
 
              # this for loop iterates through all of the files that we give the program
              # it does one rename per file given using the program 'sed'
-             # this is a sinple command line program that parses standard input and
+             # this is a simple command line program that parses standard input and
              # replaces a set expression with a give string
              # here we pass it the file name ( as standard input) and replace the nessesary
              # text