bash - How to obfuscate a shell script?

Question

I am using Ubuntu 10.04. i have created a shell script. After writing the script, the code can be edited when right clicking the file and selecting Gedit. I want to know how to make the script unreadable in Gedit.

Answer 1

Obfuscation (which is what most people mean when they say they want a "binary" shell script) is a Bad Idea(TM) - Been there, done that. It doesn't provide any security against a determined programmer (they'd just trace the script to figure out what it's doing), and it makes it really, really hard to debug (which, possibly unless you're GreyCat, you will need to do. A lot.).