On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Jayesh Shah wrote:
>
>i want some input from user in my shell script, i use 'read varname'
>now i dont want it to be displayed on yhe screen while i wrire ( like when
>we run passwd commd)

set echo off.
OR
Use a C program to read in the data and use getch() from curses.h.

Two ways :)

Devdas Bhagat
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