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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Need help with read command Post 302979133 by Huitzilopochtli on Tuesday 9th of August 2016 10:45:12 PM
Old 08-09-2016
Need help with read command

Is there a way to make the input of the read command (or some similar command that I'm unaware of) not visible, or with an astrix??

An example:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

 # Example


echo; echo "Who are you??"; read name

if [ "$name" == "John" ];
then echo "Welcome, the terminal is yours."; exit
else "Stranger danger!!"; exit
fi

Where the read input is, instead of seeing "John" being typed, it is blank, or with some non-alphabetical filler.
I'm just curious is this is possible.
 

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openipmish - Shell interface to an IPMI system SYNOPSIS
openipmish [option] DESCRIPTION
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