diff --git a/tools/bufr_copy.sh b/tools/bufr_copy.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+echo "-# To copy only the synop messages from a file\\n"
+echo "\verbatim"
+echo "> bufr_copy -w dataCategory=0 in.bufr out.bufr"
+echo "\endverbatim\\n"
+
+echo "-# To copy only the non-synop messages from a file\\n"
+echo "\verbatim"
+echo "> bufr_copy -w dataCategory!=0 in.bufr out.bufr"
+echo "\endverbatim\\n"
diff --git a/tools/bufr_dump.sh b/tools/bufr_dump.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e 
+
+echo "-# To dump bufr messages into a JSON format.\\n"
+echo "\\verbatim"
+echo  ">bufr_dump -jf ../data/bufr/aaen_51.bufr"
+echo "\\endverbatim\\n"
+