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    Shhfari

Somebody at work asked me if it was possible to open Safari (10) in Private Browsing mode in the same way it's possible to do for Chrome. The answer is yes. Sort of.
Method

Open a terminal window and paste this into it.
mkdir ~/.scripts

then all in one go
read -d '' shhfari <<- EOF
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari"
click menu item "New Private Window" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
EOF
echo "$shhfari" > ~/.scripts/shhfari.applescript

then
chmod +x ~/.scripts/shhfari.applescript

then
echo 'alias shhfari="~/.scripts/shhfari.applescript"' >> ~/.bash_profile

finally
source ~/.bash_profile

Result

Now when you type:
shhfari

into your terminal it will open open a new Private Browsing window.
It is not elegant.
Edits

Made the big script one-liner a bit more user friendly.