Running Laravel Tinker in Terminal Only Exits

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Laravel Tinker runs in Terminal, but anytime I try to get it to compute anything it exits and returns to the command line. This is a typical terminal command which I try, and Tinker exits without doing anything every time I press the Enter button.

USER-MBP:blog name$ php artisan tinker

Psy Shell v0.9.9 (PHP 7.3.1 — cli) by Justin Hileman

>>> 2 + 2

USER-MBP:blog name$

I would expect the next line of after 2 + 2 to be 4 yet when I press enter it does not compute and exits back out to the Terminal command line.

You probably have one file somewhere starting with `[` as first char following by ` — Clément Baconnier, Jan 21 '19 at 20:31
Possible duplicate of [PHP Artisan Tinker crashing from any command](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53773098/php-artisan-tinker-crashing-from-any-command) — muhive, May 12 '19 at 11:44

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '19 at 21:15

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This is actually an open issue with Psysh (which tinker is based on) and php 7.3: https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh/issues/540

There is a work around described here: https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh/issues/540#issuecomment-445546060

answered Jan 21 '19 at 21:15

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '19 at 21:35

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I also had this problem with php7.3, I simply reverted to php7.2. Unless you've got to have it I suggest using php@7.2 as the solution.

answered Jan 23 '19 at 21:35

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Running Laravel Tinker in Terminal Only Exits

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