od –width=x option isn’t working. My path seems to be correct.

This is in my .bashrc file:

export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

But when I run:

od –-width=10 image.ppm

I get the message “od: –width=10: No such file or directory”

Is there something wrong with my path?

Answer

It looks as if you pasted the --width option from something that improved the double-dash at the beginning of the option. That should be two ASCII - (minus-sign) characters.

Pasting from your example command, the actual character is u+2013 rather than u+002d