No, you appear confused. 'pass' is pretty hard to misuse. It, at no point, makes it easy to put a password into shell history. You're getting caught up in a tra

No, you appear confused. 'pass' is pretty hard to misuse. It, at no point, makes it easy to put a password into shell history. You're getting caught up in a transcript to showcase the concepts. The actual implementation of 'pass' is quite secure. It does those things for you in a way that is secure, precisely so you don't have to worry about 'echo'ing passwords in plain text.