On Wed, 19 May 2004 13:58:29 -0700, Jim Bancroft wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> When I run the following shell script I get an "ambiguous redirect" error
> message; specifically, "ambiguous redirect1", and I can't figure out why.
>
> Here are the contents:
>
> ######################
> #/bin/bash
> echo "hello" >> ./test.log 2>&1
> #######################

You meant

#!/bin/bash

Or, if you want it portable

#!/bin/sh

which will work on non-linux varieties as well as linux.

#!/bin/sh needs to be on the first line as well so you should remove the first line of comments