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[BUG] The exec command has --no-tty but run has --no-TTY while both do the same thing #13884

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@nickjj

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Hi, I believe there is a consistency bug with the long form name of the -T flag.

docker compose exec --help:

  -T, --no-tty            Disable pseudo-TTY allocation. By default 'docker compose exec' allocates a TTY.

docker compose run --help:

  -T, --no-TTY                      Disable pseudo-TTY allocation (default: auto-detected)

I'd suggest using --no-tty for both so they are both lowercase. It will help make both commands more compatible with each other and reduce human error. I think the Docker Compose project prefers the lowercase version because 0cdc5c9 applied this to exec but didn't for run. Might have been an oversight? Looks like the code silently handles --no-TTY for legacy purposes tho.

With that said, I took a shot to start a PR for this change here: #13885

Steps To Reproduce

  • Run the --help command for both and check the output, it's not just visual because if you try running docker compose run --no-tty ... it will throw unknown flag: --no-tty

Compose Version

$ docker compose version
Docker Compose version 5.1.4

Docker Environment

$ docker info
Client:
 Version:    29.6.1
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  0.35.0
    Path:     /home/nick/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  5.1.4
    Path:     /home/nick/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

Server:
 Containers: 4
  Running: 0
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 4
 Images: 48
 Server Version: 29.6.0
 Storage Driver: overlayfs
  driver-type: io.containerd.snapshotter.v1
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: systemd
 Cgroup Version: 2
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
 CDI spec directories:
  /etc/cdi
  /var/run/cdi
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: fff62f14765df376e5fc36f5a8f8e795b5670f61.m
 runc version:
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: builtin
  cgroupns
 Kernel Version: 7.0.12-arch1-1
 Operating System: Arch Linux
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: x86_64
 CPUs: 4
 Total Memory: 15.55GiB
 Name: kaizen
 ID: c3566f3f-bc80-4f37-8fe8-312fd8b17ef5
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  ::1/128
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false
 Firewall Backend: iptables
  EnableUserlandProxy: true
  UserlandProxyPath: /usr/bin/docker-proxy

Anything else?

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  1. nickjj commented on Jun 29, 2026

    @nickjj
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    This has been resolved and merged in: #13885

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