Elasticsearch failed to install multiple plugins in one command

Question

As stated in documentation, plugins can be installed through the following command:

$ sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-icu 

However, when installing with more than one plugins, the system prompted the followings

 $ sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-icu repository-s3
 ERROR: Found multiple arguments for option [arguments], but you asked for only one

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc

Answer 1

As of the latest version ES 7.5.2, you can only install one plugin at a time.

The ability to install multiple plugins at once has been added very recently and will only be available from ES 7.6 onwards, which has not yet been released. 7.6 should be coming out anytime now since there are only 2 issues and 4 PRs left open. Stay tuned...