shell How to read hidden input from terminal and pipe it to another command

SAMER SAEID answered on May 10, 2022 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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$ read -s       # I type `secret`
$ echo $REPLY
secret
$ printf %s $REPLY | wc -c
6
$ unset REPLY
$ echo $REPLY
# empty now

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