I use this code to store a password variable in the current script:
read -sp "What's your DB user password?" dbuserp
Is there a way to change the command to ask for the password twice and check matching? All in one line?
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Unfortunately, it’s not possible to do that using read directly. You will need to ask for input twice and then check if they match:
read -sp "What's your DB user password?" dbuserp
read -sp "Please confirm your DB user password:" dbuserp_conf
if [ "$dbuserp" != "$dbuserp_conf" ]; then
# passwords do not match
fi
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