Getting Bad configuration option: \377\376h

Question

I am setting my systems for codecommit. but getting following error

I followed the below link : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/setting-up-ssh-windows.html

/c/Users/Prasanna/.ssh/config: line 1: Bad configuration option: \377\376h /c/Users/Prasanna/.ssh/config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options

here is the config file Host git-codecommit.*.amazonaws.com User ******** IdentityFile ~/.ssh/codecommit_rsa

Am I missing anything to configure ?

Answer 1

You probably have some illegal characters in the config file. I had this problem while creating a config file on Windows. Unfortunately, simply opening the file in a Windows text editor may not show the illegal characters.

I was able to find this problem by running cat filename from a Bash prompt in Windows (git bash) and was able to fix it by running dos2unix filename in git bash. The same may work for you as well.