Error: Could not find or load main class –Xmx1G

Question

This is crazy; has anyone ever seen this before?

java –Xmx1G –Xms1G –XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -jar service-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Error: Could not fin         


        

Answer 1

You used an en-dash (U+2013) when you should have used a hyphen-minus (U+002D).

 –Xmx1G # incorrect: en dash
 -Xmx1g # correct: hyphen-minus

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Common_dashes
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Similar_Unicode_characters