Mac .bash_profile double quotes (straight and curly) : <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/of0DT.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/of0DT.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>While running alias <strong>bb</strong> I was getting error.</p>

<pre><code>. .bash_profile 
-bash: alias: off: not found
-bash: alias: =: not found
-bash: alias: “open: not found
-bash: alias: -e: not found
-bash: alias: .bash_profile”: not found
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<p>Upon further investing I found its due to the way double quotes are automatically changed from <strong>straight-quotes</strong> to <strong>curly-quotes</strong> in mac. 
So I changed keyboard preferences of Mac to <strong>straight-quotes</strong> and now alias <strong>bp</strong> works fine.</p>

<p>I wonder why the <strong>curly-quotes</strong> didn't work in bash, took me a while to figure out the issue.</p>
