grails help command is acting strange

Question

Why is this happening when I use the grails help feature?

nobody@nobody-desktop:~$ grails help create-app
Welcome to Grails 1.3.2 - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /home/nobody/Downloads/grails-1.3.2

Base Directory: /home/nobody
Resolving dependencies...
Dependencies resolved in 2454ms.
Running script /home/nobody/Downloads/grails-1.3.2/scripts/Help_.groovy
Environment set to development

    grails create-app -- Creates a Grails application for the given name

Usage (optionals marked with *):
    grails [environment]* create-app

nobody@nobody-desktop:~$ 

is some configuration messed up on my computer? it shouldn't take 2.5 seconds to get the help output now should it?

Answer 1

This is the boilerplate grails startup output:

Welcome to Grails 1.3.2 - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /home/nobody/Downloads/grails-1.3.2

Base Directory: /home/nobody
Resolving dependencies...
Dependencies resolved in 2454ms.

This is the output from Grails indicating that it has found a script that matches the command you executed (i.e. help->Help_.groovy)

Running script /home/nobody/Downloads/grails-1.3.2/scripts/Help_.groovy
Environment set to development

This is the actual output of the Help for create-app:

    grails create-app -- Creates a Grails application for the given name

Usage (optionals marked with *):
    grails [environment]* create-app