From what I can see, everything you listed applies to most long lived programming languages. I can certainly say the same things about javascript and python. Y

From what I can see, everything you listed applies to most long lived programming languages. I can certainly say the same things about javascript and python. Your last paragraph really highlights it. Why take this approach? When I need to use something time and again, I take a little time to write a clean, clear, and robust shell script to automate that task. Instead of the one liner in my history, it will usually be around 20 lines in a file. A shell script should be written in a verbose manner and include in comments whatever notes and links to docs are useful. A good one will serve you well for a long time. I have some I'm still using unmodified for >20 years.