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Here are some more advantages:

  find -exec

  xargs -I{}
These respect scripts but not aliases

I’m not hot on using comma (I’m old and it has special meaning in vimscript).




Hi! Author here.

Yes, this is another one which greatly benefit from, and I forgot to add, I'll update the post.

I'd say more generally: being able to use those executable scripts inside other scripts, subshells, and other environments that don't use the `.bashrc` aliases by default.




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