packer version has different output

[luckeyca]

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Overview of the Issue

"packer version" command output is different from "packer --version" and "packer -v" outputs.
This is different from terraform and vagrant

Reproduction Steps

1. run "packer --version" or "packer -v", the output is "1.9.2"
2. run "packer version", the output is "Packer v1.9.2

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[nywilken]

Thanks for reporting @luckeyca we will address this for the next release.

For context the flags -v and --version are handled by the CLI runner which just outputs the raw version string. We'll update to match the version subcommand.

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