Hi Jayesh,
The answer to this is as follows:
#Sample Script
echo -n "Enter Password:"
stty -echo
read pass
stty echo
echo -e "\nThe Password entered is: $pass"
#End of Script
For more information "man stty"
HTH
regards
Muthu
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)
>
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