Hide lines in .bash_profile

Question

is there any way to hide lines in .bash_profile , so if someone opens the file, cannot see the line? The reason is I need to set a password for database as a variable, and just putting the plain password does not work for me. By the way, someone recommended base64 encoding, which is useless in this case

Answer 1

To answer your question, no there is no way to hide lines of a text file like .bash_profile .

However, there might be other solutions, such as using ssh-agent if your use case involves ssh .