Thanks for the tips. I was playing around with retyping them in TextEdit, going line by line and I figured out one of those “it works, but I have no idea why solutions”. If I format the alias / function combination like this:

alias gta=grailsTestApp
function grailsTestApp() {
grailsTest grails “” $1
}

alias gtad=grailsTestAppDebug
function grailsTestAppDebug() {
grailsTest grails-debug-suspend “” $1
}

then things work fine. Like I said, no idea why my my Mac is happy with that, but not in the other format, but at least they’re all working. Thank for the help and the also the great aliases.

Hmm…I haven’t seen that issue before. It’s possible it’s the editor you’re using? You could edit the file in textedit to see if that does it (just type “open -e .bash_profile” on the command line.

If that doesn’t work, it could be the way things are getting copied out of the browser, these same aliases are in my full zshrc files that I’ve got on bitbucket (towards the bottom). You could try to download them from there by clicking on the “raw” link and see if cutting/pasting from that works.

Another thing you could try would be to add it to a .bashrc rather than a .bash_profile. I’m a little rusty on my bash, so I’m not sure if it’ll load both or if the .bashrc will override.

Worst case, I’d just try to retype one of the aliases and the related functions, if that works, retype it all. I did it once and it wasn’t that bad :)