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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Simple script that uses OpenSSL to encrypt a provided file with a provided key, and writes the result
+# to the provided path. Yes it's very needy.
+
+INPUT_FILE=$1
+OUTPUT_FILE=$2
+ENCRYPT_KEY=$3
+
+if [[ -n "$ENCRYPT_KEY" && -n "$INPUT_FILE" && -n "$OUTPUT_FILE" ]]; then
+ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -md sha256 -pbkdf2 -e -in "${INPUT_FILE}" -out "${OUTPUT_FILE}" -k "${ENCRYPT_KEY}"
+else
+ echo "Usage: ./encrypt-secret.sh