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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect program with password as arg Post 302282376 by cjcox on Friday 30th of January 2009 07:04:47 PM
Old 01-30-2009
While it's somewhat difficult to control the spawned processes output, you can use stty -echo to turn off echoing and spawn -noecho to prevent the sub-shell command from being echoed. You can also look at: set stty_init "-echo"

But depending on the case, you might not get what you are wanting.
 

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