<p>The suspicious part of the output is this one:</p>
<pre><code>Reading in file: –s
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<p><code>osm2pgsql</code> does not recognize the option as an option but interprets it as a fie name instead. My guess would be that you have defined an alias for osm2pgsql in your shell or have a script somewhere with that name that does strange things.</p>
<p>Another possibility: the hyphen is not an hyphen. That can happen when you copy instructions from a website that use m-dashes or the like instead of a simple ASCII hyphen. Retype the line by hand in that case.</p>

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