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Quicker in Terminal
It's because the icon goes in the resource fork, which BSD aliases don't have.
To get a Mac alias from the command line, use this method:
You may then glue the Trash icon onto the alias as explained here,
and check that it all goes into the rsrc fork:
In contrast ln -s .Trash Desktop/BSDAlias gives a regular file without rsrc fork:
Quicker in Terminal
P.S. This yoga also lets you actually view what's inside the Mac alias resource fork (here, before gluing the icon):
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