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 In Unix, it's common to pipe between commands to split up a sophisticated command over multiple steps.
 Nu takes this a step further and builds heavily on the idea of _pipelines_.
-Just as the Unix philosophy, Nu allows commands to output from stdout and read from stdin.
+Just as the Unix philosophy, Nu allows commands to output to stdout and read from stdin.
 Additionally, commands can output structured data (you can think of this as a third kind of stream).
 Commands that work in the pipeline fit into one of three categories: