Oops, i stupidly ran: ent new "add `ent sync --dry-run`" Because i used double-quotes, bash saw the `...` and ran that as a command, which failed, but then bash ran the result anyway ("ent new "add "), and here we are. This would be a good time for `ent rm` as suggested by issue 1ebdee0502937bf934bb0d72256dbdd1.