Why is there a conflict?

[Stefan Claas]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:34 AM Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
<gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
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> The intention is to sign and encrypt "data.file" producing a detached signature file.
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> a at b:c$ gpg -s -e -b -r Mike data.file
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> gpg: conflicting commands
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> Why is there a conflict? I do not want to produce an attached signature.

You use -s and -b, try 'gpg -a -b -e file'

Regards
Stefan