If the concerns are just shell history and process info: On macOS, you can use pbcopy and pbpaste from/to the clipboard. On Linux, that's: alias pbcopy='x

If the concerns are just shell history and process info: On macOS, you can use pbcopy and pbpaste from/to the clipboard. On Linux, that's: alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard' alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o' Or use secret files or something like Vault for automation.