# Cursor can't run terminal commands

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cant-run-terminal-commands/141450>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cant-run-terminal-commands/141450 "2025-11-06T18:12:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_Fletcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@Adam\_Fletcher](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Adam_Fletcher)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cant-run-terminal-commands/141450/1 "2025-11-06T18:12:43Z")

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### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

### Describe the Bug

–: eval: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)’  
–: eval: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file  
–: dump\_bash\_state: command not found

### Steps to Reproduce

Launch cursor, ask it to do some work requiring terminal commands, and get:  
–: eval: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)’  
–: eval: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file  
–: dump\_bash\_state: command not found

### Expected Behavior

The commands work.

### Operating System

MacOS

### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.64  
VSCode Version: 1.99.3  
Commit: 25412918da7e74b2686b25d62da1f01cfcd27680  
Date: 2025-11-06T04:35:14.424Z  
Electron: 37.7.0  
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251  
Node.js: 22.20.0  
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0  
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0

### For AI issues: which model did you use?

I tried composer-1, gpt-5, sonnet 4.5

### Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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**Author:** ![Artemonim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/artemonim/32/56113_2.png) [@Artemonim](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Artemonim)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cant-run-terminal-commands/141450/2 "2025-11-06T18:24:57Z")

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Try to use the Legacy Terminal settings option

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Fletcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@Adam\_Fletcher](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Adam_Fletcher)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cant-run-terminal-commands/141450/3 "2025-11-06T23:32:40Z")

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Thanks, this work! Still seems like a cursor bug, tho.

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**Author:** ![Artemonim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/artemonim/32/56113_2.png) [@Artemonim](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Artemonim)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cant-run-terminal-commands/141450/4 "2025-11-07T00:57:54Z")

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Whole new terminal is the bug

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cant-run-terminal-commands/141450/5 "2025-11-29T00:58:53Z")

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Closed on November 29, 2025, 12:58am UTC

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