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Yes, that's true. It would show up in your command history though. Even though it's probably not readable by anyone else except root, it's still probably not

by ahnick 9y ago

Yes, that's true. It would show up in your command history though. Even though it's probably not readable by anyone else except root, it's still probably not a good idea to have it persisted to disk.

Piskvorrr 9y ago
If it's inside a script, it won't go into command history, either.
- ahnick 9y ago
  Yeah, I was just giving an example of passing it into a script. Similarly, if encpass.sh is included in whatever.sh script the password won't show up in ps.