Unknown shorthand flag d in -d while executing docker-compose.yml file through command docker-compose up -d

Docker Desktop
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I am trying to create and run docker container from my docker-compose.yml file through the command by going into that location where the docker-compose.yml file is present through the command : docker-compose up -d. However I am getting the below error. Please look into it.

docker-compose up -d
unknown shorthand flag: ‘d’ in -d
See ‘docker --help’.

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It looks like your docker-compose command is actually a shell script which runs the docker command. “up” might be supported in that script but -d isn’t. If docker-compose were the original binary provided by Docker Desktop for Mac, you wouldn’t see the suggestion of running docker --help as it would not help with the compose command.

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Thanks for your input. So is this error because of the wrong installation of docker desktop for mac? Can you please suggest on the next steps to resolve the error

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More likely a wrong installation of Docker Compose. Docker Desktop installs Docker Compose too. I don’t know how it could be done wrong.

how did you install Docker Desktop and Docker Compose?