vagrant box remove command does not accept range in 'box-version' parameter

[VladRassokhin]

Vagrant version

Vagrant 1.8.4

Host operating system

$ uname -a
Linux unit-421 4.6.2-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Jun 16 16:22:10 MSK 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Guest operating system

Non-applicable

Vagrantfile

Non-applicable

Debug output

Gist with both simple and debug output

Expected behavior

Remove all boxes within specified range (all except latest)

Actual behavior

Error output, nothing changed:

Steps to reproduce

1. Have some history of updating outdated boxes
2. Try to remove them all-at-once with e.g. vagrant box remove ubuntu/trusty64 --box-version '< 20160602.0.0'

References

N/A

[VladRassokhin]

There's simple workaround: vagrant box list | grep ubuntu/trusty64 | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/)$//' | grep -v 20160602 | xargs -n 1 vagrant box remove ubuntu/trusty64 --box-version

[sethvargo]

Im gonna close this as it's closely related to #4412.