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 ### Telegraf Plugins
 
-- You can run most plugins from a shell/ssh session to verify the output. (the environment vars may be differet when telegraf is executing the plugin)
+- You can run most plugins from a shell/ssh session to verify the output. (the environment vars may be different when telegraf is executing the plugin)
 - If you're copying from a windows system, make sure the [CRLF is correct](https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-unix-linux-convert-dos-newlines-cr-lf-unix-text-format/)
 - The below command should display unix line endings (\n or LF) as $ and Windows line endings (\r\n or CRLF) as ^M$.