What’s wrong with removing the commands and adding shell aliases instead? That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. eg. In bash, they can be expressed as: alias

What’s wrong with removing the commands and adding shell aliases instead? That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. eg. In bash, they can be expressed as: alias fgrep=grep -F alias egrep=egrep -E This sounds like a push for purity - similar to what happened in Python 3 with the move from print “xyz” (special keyword) to print(“xyz”) (standard function). The new function requires three additional keystrokes every time it is used.