I have the the upload tool ( UploadFromDB.sh ) running on my server and automatically pushing my app's data to Zoho Reports. Works like a charm!

However, I don't like entering my password on the command line (where it ends up cached in the shell's history) or in a crontab.

Can you suggest a clever way to get the password to the script? Maybe storing it in a conf file?

I don't know enough about shell scripting to do this without some advice.