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Send signal to a child process
By default, when the exec.Cmd is used, the child process is assigned the main proces group. As a result, it receives signal sent to the main process too.
In a POSIX-conformant operating system, a process group denotes a collection of one or more processes. Among other things, a process group is used to control the distribution of a signal; when a signal is directed to a process group, the signal is delivered to each process that is a member of the group.
Pass sensitive data to your CLI
Invalid approach
You shouldn’t use, echo command , environment variables, or CLI flags to pass a sensitive data to any CLI.
The problem here is that it may be captured by shell history or process listings. So some 3rd party program can list running processes and steal sensitive data.
Generate QR code for your WiFi login details
You can generate these codes using an online service, or using the QR generator of your choice and feeding it this text:
Encrypt files via openssl
Sometimes you want to store some secrets in your git repository. It is a good practice to have them encrypted if stored externally (publicly).
There are dedicated solutions such as git-secret or git-crypt. However, you can also achieve similar result with the openssl tool, which is quite often already preinstalled on your host.