Print out only first line

Tobias Girstmair junkgir-passwd at yahoo.de
Sun Aug 27 16:33:58 CEST 2017


piping pass through 'head' is safe, but using that output as a command
line parameter makes it visible in 'ps ax' for all users for the whole
time 'dummyProgram' is running.

'sshpass' manpage[1] explores other options; my favourite being using an
environment variable to get the password to 'dummyProgram' like this:

DUMMYPROGRAM_PASSWD=$(pass Group/Title/User|head -n1) dummyProgram --envvar-password

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/1/sshpass


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