How-to-Encrypt-a-shell-script If you’re really concerning about the privacy of your shell scripts(Source), I have use Ubuntu 14.04 server with the root Privilage. The source of the program 'SCH' which I’m using here is from http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/ At first lets download some packeges which required to run our shell encryption program You will need to download gcc compilers root@ubuntu:/usr/src# apt-get install gcc You will need to install 'make' utility if it required (Depend on your system) root@ubuntu:/usr/src# apt-get install make After that lets download our encryption program/ source [from http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/ ] Or you can download the 'SCH' source file which I've attached to this repository from from http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/ root@ubuntu:/usr/src# wget http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc-3.8.7.tgz Lets extract the '.tgz' file root@ubuntu:/usr/src# tar xvf shc-3.8.7.tgz shc-