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pipe input doesn't work

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@wold9168 is already working on this.

Since Apr 4, 2026.

  • #143 by @wold9168 — open

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
58/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
ocaml
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported command with echo "# Helloworld"|mldoc convert on mldoc 1.5.9, then trace the mldoc convert entry point and its stdin handling. Done means piped input is converted successfully and the resulting markdown is written to stdout as expected.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

❯ echo "# Helloworld"|mldoc convert
...
Reading data from stdin...
Parsing file...
Converting to markdown
Writing data to stdout...


DONE!

mldoc's version

❯ mldoc --version
1.5.9
Dominant language
OCaml
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280
Forks
30
Avg merge
15m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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