Unable to install plugin - Invalid arguments, expected either 1 or 2 positional arguments, got 3

[NorseGaud]

veertu@fast-mini-2 test-packer-plugin_master@2 % ./packer-plugin-veertu-anka_v4.0.0_x5.0_darwin_amd64 describe
2024/07/09 09:30:49 plugin version: 4.0.0+e663e38c69cb0e8e0078c891ef3ab8421fb522d7
{"version":"4.0.0+e663e38c69cb0e8e0078c891ef3ab8421fb522d7","sdk_version":"0.5.3","api_version":"x5.0","builders":["vm-clone","vm-create"],"post_processors":["registry-push"],"provisioners":[],"datasources":[]}

veertu@fast-mini-2 test-packer-plugin_master@2 % packer plugins install –path packer-plugin-veertu-anka_v4.0.0_x5.0_darwin_amd64 github.com/veertuinc/veertu-anka
Invalid arguments, expected either 1 or 2 positional arguments, got 3
Usage: packer plugins install [OPTIONS...] <plugin> [<version constraint>]

  This command will install the most recent compatible Packer plugin matching
  version constraint.
  When the version constraint is omitted, the most recent version will be
  installed.

  Ex: packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/happycloud v1.2.3
      packer plugins install --path ./packer-plugin-happycloud "github.com/hashicorp/happycloud"

Options:
  -path <path>                  Install the plugin from a locally-sourced plugin binary.
                                This installs the plugin where a normal invocation would, but will
                                not try to download it from a remote location, and instead
                                install the binary in the Packer plugins path. This option cannot
                                be specified with a version constraint.
  -force                        Forces reinstallation of plugins, even if already installed.

What am I misunderstanding about this?

[lbajolet-hashicorp]

Hi @NorseGaud,

It looks like the - character you used for the flag isn't the one expected? Maybe it's a quirk of your terminal, but it seems that in the example you shared, the - character is a U+2013 EN-DASH (0xe2 0x80 0x93 in UTF-8) instead of a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS (0x2d in UTF-8).

Changing this in my local terminal fixes the issue, could you confirm?

[NorseGaud]

Son of a... That was it! Thanks @lbajolet-hashicorp !

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