Trouble with Aliases

[ganondor]

When I try to use certain aliases I have set up it returns:

-bash: example: command not found

These are the aliases:

alias ls='ls -al'
alias cls='clear'
alias x='exit'
alias commands='cat /Users/user/.commands'
alias q='quit'
alias bgss='/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaver$
alias chmodman='cat /Users/user/.chmodman'
alias show='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE ; killall Finder'
alias hide='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles False ; killall Finder'
alias ..='cd ..'

Some of these work: ls, cls, q, & x, but the rest do not. Please help, for it is probably something stupidly simple that I am missing.

 

[sidewinder]

In what file are you putting these lines?

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[ganondor]

I have them in .bashrc, which I load in .bash_profile.

source ~/.bashrc  # get aliases

 

[sidewinder]

What do you get back when you type "alias" in Terminal?

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[ganondor]

The list of the ones which I said worked for me in the first post. Thank you for helping me with this, by the way.

 

[sidewinder]

If you source .bashrc yourself, what do you get? Any errors?

I have my aliases in ".bash_profile". Have you tried them in that file instead?

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[ganondor]

The same thing. Also, when it is sourced, by me or by .bash_profile, I receive two errors. This has been happening the whole time, forgot to mention.

-bash: .bashrc: line x: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
-bash: .bashrc: line z: syntax error: unexpected end of file

x is the cd .. alias, and z is a blank line at the end.

 

[sidewinder]

You are missing a single quote somewhere.

Look at this line:

alias bgss='/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaver$

Do you see what is missing? There should be a single quote after the "$" in "ScreenSaver$".

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[ganondor]

Thank you. I knew it would be a simple mistake.