diff --git a/crates/hyperqueue/src/bin/hq.rs b/crates/hyperqueue/src/bin/hq.rs
index 7286da1e6..49f5708ea 100644
--- a/crates/hyperqueue/src/bin/hq.rs
+++ b/crates/hyperqueue/src/bin/hq.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ use clap::{CommandFactory, FromArgMatches};
 use clap_complete::generate;
 use cli_table::ColorChoice;
 use colored::Colorize;
-use std::io;
-use std::io::IsTerminal;
-use std::panic::PanicHookInfo;
-
 use hyperqueue::HQ_VERSION;
 use hyperqueue::client::commands::autoalloc::command_autoalloc;
 use hyperqueue::client::commands::doc::command_doc;
@@ -16,7 +12,7 @@ use hyperqueue::client::commands::job::{
 };
 use hyperqueue::client::commands::journal::command_journal;
 use hyperqueue::client::commands::outputlog::command_reader;
-use hyperqueue::client::commands::server::command_server;
+use hyperqueue::client::commands::server::{ServerCommand, ServerOpts, command_server};
 use hyperqueue::client::commands::submit::command::{SubmitJobConfOpts, open_job};
 use hyperqueue::client::commands::submit::{
     JobSubmitFileOpts, JobSubmitOpts, submit_computation, submit_computation_from_job_file,
@@ -40,7 +36,7 @@ use hyperqueue::client::task::{
 use hyperqueue::common::cli::{
     ColorPolicy, CommonOpts, DeploySshOpts, GenerateCompletionOpts, HwDetectOpts, JobCommand,
     JobProgressOpts, JobWaitOpts, OptsWithMatches, RootOptions, SubCommand, WorkerAddressOpts,
-    WorkerCommand, WorkerInfoOpts, WorkerListOpts, WorkerStopOpts, WorkerWaitOpts,
+    WorkerCommand, WorkerInfoOpts, WorkerListOpts, WorkerOpts, WorkerStopOpts, WorkerWaitOpts,
     get_task_id_selector, get_task_selector,
 };
 use hyperqueue::common::setup::setup_logging;
@@ -52,6 +48,10 @@ use hyperqueue::transfer::messages::{
 use hyperqueue::worker::hwdetect::{
     detect_additional_resources, detect_cpus, prune_hyper_threading,
 };
+use nix::sys::signal::{SigHandler, Signal};
+use std::io;
+use std::io::IsTerminal;
+use std::panic::PanicHookInfo;
 use tako::resources::{CPU_RESOURCE_NAME, ResourceDescriptor, ResourceDescriptorItem};
 
 #[cfg(feature = "jemalloc")]
@@ -382,6 +382,17 @@ environment variable, and attach the logs to the issue, to provide us more infor
     };
 }
 
+#[cfg(unix)]
+fn reset_sigpipe() {
+    unsafe {
+        nix::sys::signal::signal(Signal::SIGPIPE, SigHandler::SigDfl)
+            .expect("cannot reset sigpipe");
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(not(unix))]
+fn reset_sigpipe() {}
+
 #[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
 async fn main() -> hyperqueue::Result<()> {
     // Augment panics - first print the error and backtrace like normally,
@@ -419,6 +430,35 @@ async fn main() -> hyperqueue::Result<()> {
 
     let gsettings = make_global_settings(top_opts.common);
 
+    let is_cli_like = match &top_opts.subcmd {
+        SubCommand::Server(ServerOpts {
+            subcmd: ServerCommand::Start(_),
+        }) => false,
+        SubCommand::Worker(WorkerOpts {
+            subcmd: WorkerCommand::Start(_),
+        }) => false,
+        #[cfg(feature = "dashboard")]
+        SubCommand::Dashboard(_) => false,
+        _ => true,
+    };
+
+    if is_cli_like {
+        // When our stdout is attached to a pipe and the pipe is closed,
+        // it manifests as an I/O error, because the Rust runtime ignores
+        // SIGPIPE by default.
+        // This in turn causes `println!` to panic, which is not ideal,
+        // because it crashes HQ when used with Unix CLI utilities (such as `head`).
+        // Therefore, we reset SIGPIPE to its default behavior (terminate the process)
+        // to avoid the panics.
+        // See https://github.com/It4innovations/hyperqueue/issues/851.
+        // However, we only do this for client commands, which are short running and
+        // designed to be combined with other CLI tools.
+        // Enabling this for server and workers has unintended consequences, for example
+        // when a worker writes stdin to a task and the task has closed its stdin, then
+        // this would terminate the worker.
+        reset_sigpipe();
+    }
+
     let result = match top_opts.subcmd {
         SubCommand::Server(opts) => command_server(&gsettings, opts).await,
         SubCommand::Worker(opts) => match opts.subcmd {
diff --git a/crates/hyperqueue/src/client/commands/server.rs b/crates/hyperqueue/src/client/commands/server.rs
index 73c737895..344d57768 100644
--- a/crates/hyperqueue/src/client/commands/server.rs
+++ b/crates/hyperqueue/src/client/commands/server.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 #[derive(Parser)]
 pub struct ServerOpts {
     #[clap(subcommand)]
-    subcmd: ServerCommand,
+    pub subcmd: ServerCommand,
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ pub struct GenerateAccessOpts {
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
-enum ServerCommand {
+pub enum ServerCommand {
     /// Start the HyperQueue server
     Start(ServerStartOpts),
     /// Stop the HyperQueue server, if it is running
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ enum ServerCommand {
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
-struct ServerStartOpts {
+pub struct ServerStartOpts {
     /// Hostname/IP of the machine under which is visible to others, default: hostname
     #[arg(long)]
     host: Option<String>,
@@ -119,10 +119,10 @@ struct ServerStartOpts {
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
-struct ServerStopOpts {}
+pub struct ServerStopOpts {}
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
-struct ServerInfoOpts {}
+pub struct ServerInfoOpts {}
 
 pub async fn command_server(gsettings: &GlobalSettings, opts: ServerOpts) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     match opts.subcmd {