passflag

passflag

Password flag for Go command line apps. Documentation online

passflag provides a silence, no echo'ed prompt that will ask for a password.

Install

go get github.com/fern4lvarez/passflag

##Usage

This is an example on how to use passflag on a command line app.

// GOPATH/src/pf_example/pf_example.go
package main

import (
  "flag"
  "fmt"
  "os"
  "github.com/fern4lvarez/passflag"
)

func main() {
  name := flag.String("name", "", "User name.")
  passflag.Password("p", true, "User Password.")
  flag.Parse()

  pw, _ := passflag.Get()
  fmt.Println("Name = ", *name)
  fmt.Println("Password = ", pw)
}

go get your example:

go get pf_example/pf_example.go

And try it on your terminal:

$ pf_example -name Foo -p
Password: (no echo)
Name =  Foo
Password = Bar

##License passflag is MIT licensed, see here