how to solve erorr "Unknown options: --zipfile, fileb://panda_layer.zips)" ? aws, layer, lambda

Question

I have created "layer" for lambda function in cloud9, but i got error like this? how to solve this?

$ aws lambda publish-layer-version --layer-name pandas-tutorial --zipfile fileb://panda_layer.zip --compatible-runtimes python3.9

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Unknown options: --zipfile, fileb://panda_layer.zip

Answer 1

Tobie van der Merwe's comment is correct. You passed the argument name --zipfile when it should be --zip-file.

I came across this issue after realizing I was passing zip_file.

In this case the error message really does help.