aapt dump badging fails "dump failed because assets could not be loaded"

Question

When I run the aapt dump badging on my apk I get the below error

W/asset   (17217): Asset path Users/username/Downloads/appname.apk is neither a directory nor file (type=1).
ERROR: dump failed because assets could not be loaded

I couldn't find why it happens.
I'm using iMac.

Answer 1

I have faced this problem in my case it was missing of the (.)dot in following terminal command

./aapt dump badging /Users/username/Documents/Android/Release/PROD/appname.apk 

Hope this helps