YouSome shells allow aliases to be expanded anywhere in the command line - for example, zsh
has the concept of a global alias, alias -g 'grep=grep --color=auto -H'
If your interactive shell is bash however, aliases are only expanded when they appear as the first word of a command, so you would need to wrap the grep
call in a shell, and invoke the shell in a way that causes your ~/.bashrc
file to be read, as though in an interactive shell session.
For example
find . -name '*.txt' -exec bash -ic 'for f do grep foo "$f"; done' find-bash {} +
AFAIK it's not unsafe in any way - however it has some overhead and is hardly more convenient than simply supplying the desired options to grep directly.