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Re:Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced,... by ellieh on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:21AM (#33436241)
Sure, but something like this also works well:

`the-command --password $(read -s;echo $REPLY)`

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Re:Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced,... by ilyt on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:19AM (#33451403)
yeah now instead of history you can get the app's password via `ps aux` :D

also you still have the `export REPLY=password` in history.

sure you can source it out of file but, well, that file have same permissions (or looser! if you forgot to change) as your .bash_history file.

`cat password|command` is the safest one (or, well, something 12 factor app clowns hate, a config file)

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