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If the shell noclobber environment variable is set, you will not be able to overwrite a file's content by redirecting some output to it.

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# echo "2nd Overwritten content">tmp.file
bash: tmp.file: cannot overwrite existing file


First option would be to disable the noclobber variable:

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# set +o noclobber; set -o | grep nocl
noclobber       off


The second option is to use the pipe (|)right after the redirection sign:

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# echo "2nd Overwritten content" >| tmp.file
# cat tmp.file
2nd Overwritten content