Why am I getting errors after initialization in Intellij IDEA sbt shell?

Question

I'm having issues with the SBT shell in the Intellij IDEA. I am running Windows 10 and have the latest versions of Scala, Intellij and SBT installed on my machine. I created a small sample project called "Hello World."

When I open the "sbt shell" I get the following prompt in green: (initalizing) >

I then get the following initialization messages:

After which I just see the ">" prompt in green. If I try to run a simple command such as "sbtversion" I get an error saying unknown command. It looks like the sbtshell never finishes initialization for some reason?

What is going on here? What am I doing wrong? Am I missing a step somewhere?

Thanks

Answer 1

SBT is case sensitive.; Try using sbtVersion instead of sbtversion.

Your shell seems to be fully initialized: the new lined
>

is Intellij's way of interacting with the shell prompt.