Description

On Fedora 43, the clawdbot CLI fails with error: unknown command '/usr/bin/node-22' when running any subcommand (e.g., clawdbot tui).

Environment

• OS: Fedora 43 (x86_64)
• Node: v22.20.0 (installed via dnf install nodejs)
• Clawdbot: 2026.1.23-1
• Node binary path: /usr/bin/node-22 (symlinked from /usr/bin/node)

Root Cause

Fedora's nodejs package installs the binary as /usr/bin/node-22 (with version suffix) and creates a symlink /usr/bin/node -> node-22.

When Node runs a script, process.execPath resolves to /usr/bin/node-22 (the real binary, not the symlink).

In dist/cli/argv.js, the buildParseArgv function checks if the executable looks like node:

const executable = (normalizedArgv[0]?.split(/[/\\]/).pop() ?? "").toLowerCase();
const looksLikeNode = normalizedArgv.length >= 2 &&
    (executable === "node" ||
        executable === "node.exe" ||
        executable === "bun" ||
        executable === "bun.exe");

Since node-22 doesn't match node, looksLikeNode is false, causing the function to incorrectly prepend ["node", "clawdbot", ...] to argv. This results in malformed argv that commander.js can't parse.

Suggested Fix

Add support for versioned node binaries:

const looksLikeNode = normalizedArgv.length >= 2 &&
    (executable === "node" ||
        executable === "node.exe" ||
        executable.startsWith("node-") ||  // Add this line
        executable === "bun" ||
        executable === "bun.exe");

Workaround

Manually edit ~/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/clawdbot/dist/cli/argv.js and add executable.startsWith("node-") to the condition.