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Matt Brockman 87ceec29d9 feat: enable piping on the e2b cli (#1127)
Adds stdin piping support to `e2b sandbox exec`, so users can do:

  ```bash
  echo "data" | e2b sandbox exec <id> -- cat
cat file.bin | e2b sandbox exec <id> -- python3 -c 'import sys;
print(len(sys.stdin.buffer.read()))'
```

  Included:
  - JS SDK updates:
      - closeStdin()
      - supportsStdinClose
  - CLI updates:
      - detects piped stdin
      - streams stdin in 64 KiB chunks
      - closes remote stdin on EOF
  - graceful fallback for older sandbox versions (requires `envd` >= 0.5.2, warn + ignore piped input)


  ### Example Usage

  #### non-piped exec still works
```
  e2b sandbox exec <sandbox_id> -- 'echo backend-non-pipe'
```
  #### piped stdin path (supported envd) should deliver bytes
```
  echo "hello" | e2b sandbox exec <sandbox_id> -- 'wc -c'   # expect 6
printf '\x00\x01\x02\xff' | $e2b sandbox exec <sandbox_id> -- 'wc -c' #
expect 4
```
  #### optional: legacy template behavior should warn + ignore piped stdin
```
echo "hello" | e2b sandbox exec <legacy_sandbox_id> -- 'wc -c' # expect
0 + "Ignoring piped stdin."
```
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