curl option -: is unknown

Question

I run this command to install an update version nodejs on ubuntu 18.04

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -

I receive the error "curl option -: is unknown"

I have tried on multiple systems

Answer 1

if curl does not work (those options are fine and it might be a strange kind of hyphen or alike):

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -

just use wget instead:

wget -qO- https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -