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Input a password in a bash script

Thursday, 02 October 2008 09:51 neo73

Here is a very simple code snippet to ask for an input without showing it on display. Great for all password inputs.

#!/bin/sh
read -p "Username: " uname
stty -echo
read -p "Password: " passw; echo
stty echo

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