Comment by schrodingersCat

Good call. I posted an edit to my original comment. zsh -c won't run the function outside of the current session. The "extra step" needed to add functions to the environment variables seems to make zsh much more secure than bash in the context of this discussion (perhaps?). This SE thread was really helpful to me in clarifying: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33255/how-to-define...