Oracle Password Encrypt for shell script -- Unix perl Command

 
We usually face situation where we need to encrypt password for shell scripts .  Recently we faced this  requirement and below is how we added encrypted password in shell  script  

We need to retain  file containing hexadecimal value  .   in our case it was  /dbmonitoring/clone/clone.conf 

################ Encrypt Phase #################
cat /tmp/pass.lst
Pass#Fri_09_24_2021
echo ${pass} > /tmp/pass.lst
hex=`perl -e 'print unpack "H*",\`cat /tmp/pass.lst\`'`
  
echo $hex
50617373234672695f30395f32345f323032315f74617267657a
echo $hex > /dbmonitoring/clone/clone.conf
 
cat /dbmonitoring/clone/clone.conf
50617373234672695f30395f32345f323032315f74617267657a


################ Decrypt Phase #################
decrypt=`perl -e 'print pack "H*",\`cat /dbmonitoring/clone/clone.conf\`'`
echo $decrypt
Pass#Fri_09_24_2021 ▒
Password=${decrypt:0:-2}
echo $Password
Pass#Fri_09_24_2021

sqlplus sys/${Password}@CLONE1 as sysdba