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Re: read -s

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From: Oliver Sturm <o.sturm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: read -s
Date: 15 Aug 2002 09:49:13 +0200
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On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 17:02, Oliver Kiddle 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

Great, that works for me. Thanks!


                       Oliver Sturm

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