General :: Custom Xen Shutdown Command Fails?

I have a custom command I've made to quickly shut down all of my xen instances.

Code:

[root@LCENT02 ~]# virtdown
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `2'

As you can see it fails when I try to run it on the command line. It is stored in an ~/.env file in my home directory. What is odd to me is if I open the .env file and copy the command from there and paste it into the command line, it does actually work!

Code:

[root@LCENT02 ~]# for i in `virsh list | grep -v -e Id -e --- -e Domain-0 | awk '{print $1}'`; do virsh shutdown $i; done
Domain 1 is being shutdown
Domain 2 is being shutdown
Domain 3 is being shutdown

And this is how I have the command entered into my .env file:

Code:

alias virtdown="for i in `virsh list | grep -v -e Id -e --- -e Domain-0 | awk '{print $1}'`; do virsh shutdown $i; done

Why would this command work if you paste it onto the command line but not use the custom command virtdown?