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Amplify CLI `amplify configure` does not work on Ubuntu for Windows

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Describe the bug amplify configure does not work as intended on Ubuntu for Windows

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Setup Ubuntu (with Windows Subsystem for Linux) for Windows
Install Amplify and Amplify CLI
Amplify init your new project
Add resources (in this case, auth, hosting, and analytics
run $amplify configure

Expected behavior A configuration prompt that I can walk through.

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OS: Windows 10, Ubuntu on Windows

Additional context The Amplify folder is in the Windows filesystem but is accessed through Ubuntu’s /mnt/c/ directory.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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yuthcommented, Dec 4, 2018

To understand the problem, you were able to configure amplify first time and initialize the project. You got the above error when you tried to run amplify configure.

Could you also include the version of node and amplify CLI You can use the following commands to get the version

$ node -v 
$ amplify -v

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github-actions[bot]commented, May 27, 2021

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