diff --git a/tmp/awards_check.sh b/tmp/awards_check.sh
index d1d64b88e..5d0c69bd0 100755
--- a/tmp/awards_check.sh
+++ b/tmp/awards_check.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# check_awards - check the award lines in README.md files
+# awards_check - check the award lines in README.md files
 #
 # XXX - This is a temporary utility that will be replaced when
 #	the .winner.json files are built
@@ -10,19 +10,20 @@
 # generate as it was not worth getting everything correct. It was initially
 # generated like:
 #
-#	echo '#!/bin/bash' > bin/check_awards.sh ; ( while read -r g ; do
+#	echo '#!/bin/bash' > bin/awards_check.sh ; ( while read -r g ; do
 #	    echo grep "$g";
 #	done < <(sed -e 's,_,/,g' -e 's/"/\\"/g' tmp/year-auth-prize.csv |
 #	    awk -F, '{print grep "\x22" $2 "\x22" " " $1 "/" "README.md"}' ); )
-#	    >> bin/check_awards.sh
+#	    >> bin/awards_check.sh
 #
 # To determine how many entries have a mismatch in award compared to the CSV
 # file do:
 #
-#	sh bin/check_awards.sh | grep :0
+#	sh tmp/awards_check.sh | grep :0
 #
-# It must be run in the top level directory. It shouldn't be necessary in future
-# IOCCC contests as the problem should not occur again.
+# It must be run in the tmp/ subdirectory. It shouldn't be necessary in future
+# IOCCC contests as the problem should not occur again (hence it's a temporary
+# file :-) )
 #
 # This was a hack and not the prettiest hack made by Cody Boone Ferguson
 # (@xexyl) to quickly check all entries from 1984 through 2020. It probably could
diff --git a/tmp/check_path_list.sh b/tmp/check_path_list.sh
index eae7e4670..4fac43540 100755
--- a/tmp/check_path_list.sh
+++ b/tmp/check_path_list.sh
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ trap 'rm -f $TMP_FILE; exit' 0 1 2 3 15
 comm -23 "$REQUIRED_PATH_LIST" "$FOUND_LIST" | sort -t/ > "$TMP_FILE"
 if [[ -s $TMP_FILE ]]; then
     COUNT=$(wc -l < "$TMP_FILE" | sed -e 's/^ *//')
-    echo "# $0: Waning: missing required file count: $COUNT"
+    echo "# $0: Warning: missing required file count: $COUNT"
     EXIT_CODE=18	# exit 18
     echo "#"
     echo "# $0: missing required file list starts below"
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ trap 'rm -f $TMP_FILE; exit' 0 1 2 3 15
 comm -13 "$MANIFEST_LIST" "$FOUND_LIST" | sort -t/ > "$TMP_FILE"
 if [[ -s $TMP_FILE ]]; then
     COUNT=$(wc -l < "$TMP_FILE" | sed -e 's/^ *//')
-    echo "# $0: Waning: found files not in the manifest count: $COUNT"
+    echo "# $0: Warning: found files not in the manifest count: $COUNT"
     EXIT_CODE=19	# exit 19
     echo "#"
     echo "# $0: found files not in the manifest list starts below"
diff --git a/tmp/fix_manifest_csv.sh b/tmp/fix_manifest_csv.sh
index ae873b76a..6026d6821 100755
--- a/tmp/fix_manifest_csv.sh
+++ b/tmp/fix_manifest_csv.sh
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 export MANIFEST_CSV="manifest.csv"
 export TMP_CSV
 
-# fix manifest CSV
-#
 if [[ ! -f $MANIFEST_CSV ]]; then
     echo "$0: ERROR: MANIFEST_CSV is missing: $MANIFEST_CSV" 1>&2
     exit 10
@@ -46,10 +44,13 @@ if [[ $status -ne 0 ]]; then
     exit 13
 fi
 if [[ ! -s $TMP_CSV ]]; then
-    printf "$0: ERROR: TMP_CSV: tr -d '\\\015' < %s > %s produced a empty file" "$MANIFEST_CSV" "$TMP_CSV" 1>&2
+    printf "$0: ERROR: TMP_CSV: tr -d '\\\015' < %s > %s produced an empty file" "$MANIFEST_CSV" "$TMP_CSV" 1>&2
     exit 14
 fi
 
+# fix manifest CSV
+#
+
 # sort manifest CSV file
 #
 sort -t, -k1,1 -k2d,2 -k3g,3 -k4d,10 "$TMP_CSV" -o "$TMP_CSV"
diff --git a/tmp/gen_path_list.found.sh b/tmp/gen_path_list.found.sh
index cf9d61c8a..3c781de31 100755
--- a/tmp/gen_path_list.found.sh
+++ b/tmp/gen_path_list.found.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# gen_path_list.found.sh - generate tmp/path_list.found.txt for entry directories under a year
+# gen_path_list.found.sh - generate tmp/path_list.found.txt for entry
+# directories under a year
 #
 # XXX - This is a temporary utility that will be replaced when
 #	the .winner.json files are built