[Reference feedback]: az role definition show doesn't work in Azure Cloud shell

[alexxiongxiong]

Type of issue

Other (describe below)

Reference command name

az role definition show

Feedback

"az role definition show" command doesn't work in Azure Cloud shell

alex [ ~ ]$ az role definition show --name "AKS Node Reader"
'show' is misspelled or not recognized by the system.

Examples from AI knowledge base:
az role definition list --name myrole
List role definitions. (autogenerated)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cli/azure/role/definition#az_role_definition_list
Read more about the command in reference docs

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/role/definition?view=azure-cli-latest#az-role-definition-show

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs-cli/blob/main/latest/docs-ref-autogen/role/definition.yml

Author

@dbradish-microsoft

Document Id

78ea89c1-7c56-e33b-d10a-dae05642aa34

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[jiasli]

As documented in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/release-notes-azure-cli#february-11-2025, az role definition show was introduced by 2.69.0.

Azure Cloud Shell still uses Azure CLI 2.68.0.