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-What is Sentry?
+## What is Sentry?
 
 Apache Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop cluster.
 
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 *  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Home
 
-Building Sentry
+## Building Sentry
 
 Building Sentry requires the following tools:
 
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 To compile Sentry, run:
 
+```
 mvn install -DskipTests
+```
 
 To run Sentry tests, run:
 
+```
 mvn test
+```
 
 To build a distribution, run:
 
+```
 mvn install
+```
 
 The final Sentry distribution artifacts will be in $project/sentry-dist/target/.