Why is there a conflict?

[Stefan Claas]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:57 AM Stefan Claas
<spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
> >
> >
> > a at b:c$ gpg -s -e -b -r Mike data.file
> >
> > gpg: conflicting commands
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> >
> > Why is there a conflict? I do not want to produce an attached signature.
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> You use -s and -b, try 'gpg -a -b -e file'

You can shorten this like: 'gpg -aber Mike data.file' (cool German
word 'aber' :-)

Regards
Stefan