Compile shell scripts to encrypted binaries using SHC

Shell scripts are the plain code files and it could be modified easily when in the case of distributing. To avoid that the scripts can be converted to some other format like binary. Using SHC library the Unix shell scritps can be converted to encrypted binaries so that reverse engineering of that is not that much easy.

The Debian or Tar source of SHC are availble in Open Source repositories. Install the tool and give the below command to make the object file.

$ shc -v -r -T -f test.sh
$ mv test.sh.x test
$ ./test 

This will output one object file and one c file. Just rename output file with the suffix ".x" (ie.test.sh.x) to some name and use it anyware.