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 The main repo:
 
-```
+```bash
 git clone https://github.com/haskell/text
 ```
 
 To run benchmarks please clone and unpack test files:
 
-```
+```bash
 cd text
 git clone https://github.com/haskell/text-test-data benchmarks/text-test-data
 make -Cbenchmarks/text-test-data