1A new type of shell. 2 3Nu draws inspiration from projects like PowerShell, functional programming 4languages, and modern CLI tools. Rather than thinking of files and data as 5raw streams of text, Nu looks at each input as something with structure. 6For example, when you list the contents of a directory what you get back is 7a table of rows, where each row represents an item in that directory. 8These values can be piped through a series of steps, in a series of commands 9called a 'pipeline'. 10