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

Answer 1

You are probably looking for something like shc. From the man page:

shc creates a stripped binary executable version of the script specified with -f on the command line.

http://freecode.com/projects/shc

Disclaimer: I have not tested shc nor do I know how well/if it works