Encrypt passwords in Scripts?

[Funkbuqet]

Does anyone know is there a way to encrypt the transmission-remote password for use in a script?

I currently have a script that runs after completion using transmission-remote commands, but i have to include my password in plain text within the script. I would like to encrypt the password so anyone that view the script can't see my password. i attempted copying the encrypted password from seetings.json and using it, but (as expected) that didn't work. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[rb07]

No need to encrypt or use the plain text password, transmission-remote has a couple of options to avoid security risks:

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$ transmission-remote -h
transmission-remote 2.50 (13228)
...
 -ne  --authenv                            Set authentication info from the
                                           TR_AUTH environment variable
                                           (user:pw)
 -N   --netrc                  <file>      Set authentication info from a .netrc
                                           file
...

[Funkbuqet]

Thank you.

Using .netrc is better than what i was doing, and with permission set to 0400 it should be secure.