ambiguous redirect in bash

Trying to output the results of a process to a file

This is a very ambiguous error message. You’ll see this error message when you try to output the results of a line of code you’re running to a file. Likely what happened was that you set a variable to a file name and then misspelled the variable when you use it like this:

out="file.txt
echo "Send this comment to a file" > $outz

Fix the variable name and it will work:

out="file.txt
echo "Send this comment to a file" > $out

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