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vagrant invalid option was specified

I am trying to install in on my laptop while running on Windows 8. I have downloaded and installed vagrant and Virtualbox and currently am trying to download vagrant box using

vagrant init tsawler/wafs; vagrant up --provider virtualbox

and i get this error,

C:\Users\patrick\Documents\website>vagrant init tsawler/wafs; vagrant up --provider virtualbox
An invalid option was specified. The help for this command is available below.

Usage: vagrant init [options] [name [url]]

Options:

    -f, --force                      Overwrite existing Vagrantfile
    -m, --minimal                    Create minimal Vagrantfile (no help comment
s)
        --output FILE                Output path for the box. '-' for stdout
    -h, --help                       Print this help

I have tried to add the -f or --force option after the init but still get the same result. Is there a setting that missing?

Solution

  • Sometimes, multiple commands on the same line may not get parsed correctly, and running them separately usually works. Try these.

    C:\Users\patrick\Documents\website>vagrant init tsawler/wafs C:\Users\patrick\Documents\website>vagrant up