Re: Reading without echo?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

John S Cooper <John.Cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What's the recommended way for a zsh script to read (with prompt) a password
> without having it echo'd?

You need to do something like:

  stty -echo; read pw?'Password> '; stty echo; print

There's no internal support for this (actually that's not quite true since
the zftp module can read passwords, but there's no way to this from the
main shell).

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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