# Confluent flink shell issue in Command Prompt

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-flink-shell-issue-in-command-prompt/10126>\
**Category:** Confluent Cloud\
**Created:** [12 February 2024 06:47 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-flink-shell-issue-in-command-prompt/10126 "2024-02-12T06:47:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![YHKimmm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/yhkimmm/32/3591_2.png) [@YHKimmm](https://forum.confluent.io/u/YHKimmm)\
**Post date:** [12 February 2024 06:47 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-flink-shell-issue-in-command-prompt/10126/1 "2024-02-12T06:47:14Z")

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Hi I have been using Confluent CLI for Kafka in Window and everything works fine but for Flink SQL CLI typically command for “confluent flink shell” gives me this error:

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I have tried to use my service account but obviously that WARN sign is disappeared but still get Error: failed to initialize console parser thing…

I am wondering does confluent flink shell doesn’t support in Window command prompt envrionment?

I zipped the file for the latest version of confluent(confluent\_3.48.1\_windows\_amd64) also tried other versions but still get same error. Please help…

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**Author:** ![dtroiano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/dtroiano/32/1961_2.png) [@dtroiano](https://forum.confluent.io/u/dtroiano)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2024 14:56 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-flink-shell-issue-in-command-prompt/10126/2 "2024-02-13T14:56:57Z")

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Thanks for raising this – I am seeing the same issue on Windows. I’ll raise this internally to see about a fix / workaround.

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**Author:** ![YHKimmm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/yhkimmm/32/3591_2.png) [@YHKimmm](https://forum.confluent.io/u/YHKimmm)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2024 17:25 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-flink-shell-issue-in-command-prompt/10126/3 "2024-02-13T17:25:36Z")

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Thank you! Please let me know once it is fixed or find the workaround

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**Author:** ![dtroiano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/dtroiano/32/1961_2.png) [@dtroiano](https://forum.confluent.io/u/dtroiano)\
**Post date:** [14 February 2024 14:48 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-flink-shell-issue-in-command-prompt/10126/4 "2024-02-14T14:48:09Z")

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The Confluent CLI team has fixed this. Based on the release cadence of the CLI, I’d expect it to be available sometime next week. I’ll drop a note here once it’s available.

We’re not aware of a CLI-specific workaround so would recommend using the SQL workspace in the Confluent Cloud Console in the meantime.

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**Author:** ![dtroiano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/dtroiano/32/1961_2.png) [@dtroiano](https://forum.confluent.io/u/dtroiano)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2024 14:44 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-flink-shell-issue-in-command-prompt/10126/5 "2024-02-20T14:44:28Z")

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The fix for this is in the latest release `3.50.0`. You can run `confluent update` to get the latest.