How do I fix JMeterPluginsCMD "Missing plugin type specification" error - windows

Question

I'm trying to use the JMeterPluginsCMD on Windows to generate load test result graphs after a JMeter run. I installed the plugin manually because I can't use the JMeter Plugins Manager. (I don't have the network information I need to configure it). When I run a simple command .\JMeterPluginsCMD.bat, I get an error message. What can I do about this error message?
Here's the error message ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing plugin type specification
Here's the full error output:
~\Desktop\apache-jmeter-5.1.1\bin> .\JMeterPluginsCMD.bat
2019-08-12 12:10:29,564 WARN o.a.j.u.JMeterUtils: Exception 'null' occurred when fetching String property:'sampleresult.default.encoding', defaulting to: ISO-8859-1
2019-08-12 12:10:29,571 WARN o.a.j.u.JMeterUtils: Exception 'null' occurred when fetching String property:'jmeterPlugin.prefixPlugins'
2019-08-12 12:10:29,572 INFO k.a.j.PluginsCMDWorker: Using JMeterPluginsCMD v. N/A
2019-08-12 12:10:29,574 INFO o.a.j.u.JMeterUtils: Setting Locale to en_US
2019-08-12 12:10:29,578 INFO k.a.j.JMeterPluginsUtils: Loading user properties from: C:\Path\apache-jmeter-5.1.1\bin\user.properties
2019-08-12 12:10:29,582 INFO k.a.j.JMeterPluginsUtils: Loading system properties from: C:\Path\apache-jmeter-5.1.1\bin\system.properties
ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing plugin type specification
*** Problem's technical details go below ***
Home directory was detected as: C:\Path\apache-jmeter-5.1.1\lib
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing plugin type specification
at kg.apc.jmeter.PluginsCMDWorker.checkParams(PluginsCMDWorker.java:78)
at kg.apc.jmeter.PluginsCMDWorker.doJob(PluginsCMDWorker.java:104)
at kg.apc.cmdtools.ReporterTool.processParams(ReporterTool.java:255)
at kg.apc.cmdtools.PluginsCMD.processParams(PluginsCMD.java:62)
at kg.apc.cmdtools.PluginsCMD.processParams(PluginsCMD.java:21)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at kg.apc.cmd.UniversalRunner.main(UniversalRunner.java:115)
~\Desktop\apache-jmeter-5.1.1\bin>

Answer 1

You are missing plugin-type parameter, example:
JMeterPluginsCMD.bat --generate-png test.png --input-jtl results.jtl --plugin-type ResponseTimesOverTime --width 800 --height 600
Your plugin jar should be available in lib/ext folder
Make note that you need to install corresponding plugins set to have Extras plugins available in CMD.