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awright18
awright18

Reputation: 2333

How do I get out of a >> prompt in powershell when I made a mistake?

I use powershell with git for the poshgit features and sometimes I'll make an error typing the git command like git commit -m 'something and for get to close the ' before hitting enter. It goes to the new line I type ' and hit enter and I still get the >> prompt. Is there any easy way to say give me back a new prompt and get out of the infinite >> loop with out closing powershell?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 56167

Answers (10)

Parker Stafford
Parker Stafford

Reputation: 11

I'm a little late on this now, but after having this issue and Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Z, Enter, and Exit not working for me, I found this worked:

PS C:\Users\[USER]>> $host.EnterNestedPrompt()
PS C:\Users\[USER]>>> exit
PS C:\Users\[USER]>> exit
PS C:\Users\[USER]>

Upvotes: 0

John Pittaway
John Pittaway

Reputation: 929

I found it easier to the exit and restart Visual Studio. I tried several of the above first. BTW, I am using VS 2022.

Upvotes: 0

Sudharshann D
Sudharshann D

Reputation: 2093

Use exit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit

Upvotes: 0

Mr. Madagascar
Mr. Madagascar

Reputation: 25

just press ctrl-z + return(enter) a few times and you will be out

Upvotes: 1

Kevin Albee
Kevin Albee

Reputation: 11

Ctr-C is the only option that worked for me in the similar situation with a >>

Upvotes: 1

P.M
P.M

Reputation: 31

I tried the various commands in the above answers as well. Then I simply "backspaced" and deleted all my commands back to "C:\" ! Works just fine.

Upvotes: 2

thund
thund

Reputation: 1953

Type "exit" at the prompt. ^C didn't work for me. Nor did enter.

Upvotes: 7

dspatil
dspatil

Reputation: 337

If you want to come out of console without running entered command just type Ctr+C.

If you want to run entered command, but power-shell still giving that double right even after after hitting multiple enters, CHECK FOR YOUR COMMAND SYNTAX. Possibly any extra WHITE SPACE or QUOTEs might be causing this problem.

Upvotes: 4

jon Z
jon Z

Reputation: 16626

Press ctrl+C.

Upvotes: 41

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301147

@jon Z 's answer tells you how to abort it, but what you want is to hit enter at the empty >> prompt and you will be out:

PS > git commit -m 'test
>> '
>>
[temp 7b96875] test
 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 c

Notice in the last >> prompt I just hit enter and it completes the command. This is done when you want the command multiline ( in this case commit message is multiline) and to signify the end, you just hit return on an empty line to get out.

Upvotes: 19

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