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Old 10-09-2009
Encrypting a shell script

Hi all,

I have one script with me , say automate.sh.
I would like to encrypt it, so that no one can see the contents of this script.
Can anyone guide me to encrypt/decrypt this script?


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akash
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Old 10-09-2009
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