Recipe: Reading n characters without Return press

Read 2 characters with out Return as delimitor
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$ read -n 2 var
$ echo $var


Read password in non-echo mode
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read -s var


Read variable with timeout 5 sec condition
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read -t 5 var

Read variable with input delimitor ":" specified
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$ read -d : var
hello:
$ echo $var
hello