src/nnn.c | 3 +--

diff --git a/src/nnn.c b/src/nnn.c
index d5c14df97dc20985f529b6f232e522fa8cdbf9b0..fd614f2df09da3a5d830980d983683a2f9ca755d 100644
--- a/src/nnn.c
+++ b/src/nnn.c
@@ -2125,8 +2125,7 @@
 		if ((flag & F_CONFIRM) || ((flag & F_CHKRTN) && retstatus)) {
 			status = write(STDOUT_FILENO, messages[MSG_RETURN], xstrlen(messages[MSG_RETURN]));
 			(void)status;
-			status = read(STDIN_FILENO, g_buf, PATH_MAX);
-			(void)status;
+			while ((read(STDIN_FILENO, &status, 1) > 0) && (status != '\n'));
 		}
 
 		if (flag & F_NORMAL)