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 ## Usage
 
 * Pipe via stdin to transcode
-* Modes are __encoding__ and __decoding__ 
+* Modes are __encode__ and __decode_ 
 * Encoding is done in the following way
 ```sh
 echo Hello, World! | based encode --b91