Re: read -s

[Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 Aug, you wrote:
> 
> In bash, I can do "read -s" to emulate a password prompt without any
> echoing. Is there some way to do the same in zsh? The -s or a similar
> parameter isn't supported, is it? Is there an external command that I
> don't know? Thanks for any input!

You can use stty to turn off echoing. Like this:

stty -echo
read password
stty echo

I expect it would be fairly easy to add this -s option to the read in zsh.
Does anyone think it would be worth doing?

Oliver


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