title: Unexpected error running Liquibase: Unknown parameter: 'ï»¿#Liquibase.properties
body: <p>I am setting up a new user for liquibase (3.5.3).  When we run the following command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>liquibase --defaultsFile=Config /Liquibase.properties --logLevel=Info
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>We get this error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>--contexts=initial update Unexpected error running Liquibase: Unknown parameter: 'ï»¿#Liquibase.properties '</p>
    
    <p>SEVERE 2/7/17 11:39 AM: liquibase: Unknown parameter:
    'ï»¿#Liquibase.properties'</p>
    
    <p>liquibase.exception.CommandLineParsingException: Unknown parameter:
    'ï»¿#Liquiba se.properties'
            at liquibase.integration.commandline.Main.parsePropertiesFile(Main.java:
    476)
            at liquibase.integration.commandline.Main.run(Main.java:164)
            at liquibase.integration.commandline.Main.main(Main.java:103)</p>
    
    <p>For more information, use the --logLevel flag</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I thought there may have been a funny character in the file, so we recreated it, but still received the same error.  We also, took a working copy of a properties file from another project and modified it.  This also produced the same result.  </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on what is going wrong or thoughts on how to fix it, would be greatly appreciated.
  m</p>