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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:17:11 +0200
From:      "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com>
To:        "Apeksha Godiyal" <apeksha.godiyal@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stty -echo
Message-ID:  <14989d6e0703280617w6d836d1fhb2dce468c02259d4@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28/03/07, Apeksha Godiyal <apeksha.godiyal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using the command stty -echo which is supposed to turn of
> displaying characters. But it is not turning off the echoing of typed chars.
>
> Example:
>
> $ stty -echo
> $ echo hi
> hi
> $
>
> Here "echo hi" should not have been printed.
> Is this a bug or have I not interpreted the man pages?

AFAIK it doesn't work in an interactive shell.
But it works in a script, just try something like:

#!/bin/sh
stty -echo
read

> Thanks in advance,
> Apeksha Godiyal

HTH
Christian



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