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If you're using bash, you'll need a to use HISTIGNORE or HISTCONTROL environment variables to do this.

If you're using bash, you can just leave a space before the command, like the other commentor said.

Thats true if HISTCONTROL is set to `ignorespace` or `ignoreboth`

read -s -r MY_PASSWORD

Then, after typing your password you can safely use the $MY_PASSWORD variabile

Oh I just learned something, thank you.