Comments on: How to Hide Source Code in a Bash Script

By: Jaxov

Jaxov — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:55:28 +0000

@James: Can you elaborate a bit plz? Any web-links for details?

By: James

James — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:00:18 +0000

Alternatively you could create a wrapper script, which simply calls your script. Require users to use SUDO to run the wrapper and change the permission so that the actual script is only readable by root.

By: No_limits90

No_limits90 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:42:15 +0000

See especially pages 28-46 on OM. ,

By: Fmigo

Fmigo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:56 +0000

Open source can not remain hidden :P

By: Max

Max — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:20:36 +0000

Mate,
Making file hidden is not a solution at all.
How you are going to run your script? By providing absolute or relative path. In both cases the name of your script will be revealed.
>How to Hide Source Code In A Bash Script
write it on c.

If only you have root privileges on a box and you are the only person who is going to run a script, put in any directory to which only root has access (700), make root an owner of the script and change permissions to 700 (don't worry it will run with 700 same good as with 755)
Otherwise if other people is intended to use your script and you use bash, the whole idea is rubbish.
I can understand why you don't want other people to modify it. But to hide a source? Can't thing of any reasonable explanation why that would be needed. That is why you didn't find anything decent on that topic surfing Internet.

By: Jaxov

Jaxov — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:20:59 +0000

Hi Custangro,

Thanks for your reply, I tried this, the command asks for a key after executing it on a bash file, after entering a key and writing/saving the bash file, when I tried to execute it, it gives following error:

-bash: ./test3: cannot execute binary file

Can you explain little in detail, what this command do? and how to use it?

Waiting for our reply, thanks.

By: custangro

custangro — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:22:36 +0000

You can also do

vi -x file.txt

-C