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All time, since Oct 17.

Truncated output on pipes

“What happens: claude --help output is cut short when stdout is a pipe.”

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I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/18939/file
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CLI output truncated when stdout is a pipe. Output is cut at a pipe-buffer boundary while a redirect to a regular file gets the full text; one report still exits 0.

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Where
CLI output
Versions
2.1.296 to 2.1.311
Platforms
Linux
How bad
Breaks a normal workflow.

Original reports2, newest first

  1. claude --help output truncated at 8/16 KiB when stdout is a pipe (2.1.311, Linux)#105441
  2. claude plugin test loses the tail of its output on a pipe and exits 0 (nonblocking final write, EAGAIN ignored)#103055

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