Function to read sensitive info from terminal

Templates/Functions/Read-Sensitive.bash

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+read_sensitive() {
+  # Securely read input into a variable
+  #
+  # Arguments:
+  #   READVARIABLE <type: variable> <position: 1> <required: true>
+  #     - A variable must be passed and the output of this function will be set to that variable
+  #       e.g: read_sensitive MYVAR
+  #
+  # Usage:
+  #  read_sensitive SOMEVAR
+  #
+  # POSIX Compliant:
+  #   Yes
+  #
+
+  stty -echo
+  local INPUT
+  read -r INPUT
+  stty echo
+  printf "\n"
+  eval "${1}=${INPUT}"
+}