Prompts for the user input get cutoff #1161
Description
Checks
- I have searched github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/issues and there are no duplicates of my issue
- I have run
q doctorin the affected terminal session - I have run
q restartand replicated the issue again
Operating system
macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)
Expected behaviour
Running commands that require input from the user like y/n or some other text input cause q cli to get stuck and in most cases the message of the prompt is cutoff and not actually displayed in terminal.
Example:
% q chat -a 'run `read -p "Continue? (y/n): " ans && [[ $ans == [Yy] ]] && echo "You chose yes!" || echo "You chose no!"`'
Hi, I'm Amazon Q. Ask me anything.
Things to try
• Fix the build failures in this project.
• List my s3 buckets in us-west-2.
• Write unit tests for my application.
• Help me understand my git status
/acceptall Toggles acceptance prompting for the session.
/profile (Beta) Manage profiles for the chat session
/context (Beta) Manage context files for a profile
/help Show the help dialogue
/quit Quit the application
> run `read -p "Continue? (y/n): " ans && [[ $ans == [Yy] ]] && echo "You chose yes!" || echo "You chose no!"`
This command creates a simple prompt that asks you to continue with a yes/no question. Let me
execute it for you:
Execute shell command
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I will run the following shell command:
read -p "Continue? (y/n): " ans && [[ $ans == [Yy] ]] && echo "You chose yes!" || echo "You chose no!"
Executing `read -p "Continue? (y/n): " ans && [[ $ans == [Yy] ]] && echo "You chose yes!" || echo "You chose no!"`...
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Actual behaviour
Same as above, but show the prompt to the user
Continue? (y/n):
Steps to reproduce
q chat -a 'run `read -p "Continue? (y/n): " ans && [[ $ans == [Yy] ]] && echo "You chose yes!" || echo "You chose no!"`'
Environment
[q-details]
version = "1.7.2"
hash = "b6bf5f1675dd7395009e8bc65c1145820671f211"
date = "2025-03-21T01:36:16.66764Z (20d ago)"
variant = "full"
[system-info]
os = "macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)"
chip = "Apple M3 Pro"
total-cores = 12
memory = "36.00 GB"
[environment]
cwd = "/Volumes/Development"
cli-path = "/Volumes/Development"
os = "Mac"
shell-path = "/Users/USER/.toolbox/tools/toolbox/1.1.1762.0/toolbox-exec"
shell-version = "5.9"
terminal = "macOS"
install-method = "toolbox"
[env-vars]
PATH = "/Users/USER/.rbenv/shims:/Users/USER/.rbenv/bin:/Users/USER/.rbenv/shims:/Users/USER/.local/bin:/Users/USER/.nvm/versions/node/v20.19.0/bin:/Users/USER/.local/share/mise/installs/node/18.20.2/bin:/Users/USER/.local/share/mise/installs/python/3.12.9/bin:/Users/USER/.local/share/mise/installs/python/3.11.11/bin:/Users/USER/.local/share/mise/installs/python/3.10.16/bin:/Users/USER/.local/share/mise/installs/python/3.9.21/bin:/Users/USER/.local/share/mise/installs/python/3.8.20/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Users/USER/.cargo/bin:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin:/Users/USER/.toolbox/bin:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/emulator:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/emulator:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/tools:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/emulator:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/tools:/Users/USER/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:/Users/USER/.toolbox/bin"
SHELL = "/bin/zsh"
TERM = "xterm-256color"
__CFBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.Terminal"