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Bug How to solve this problem "Illegal Option"
I am just trying to read the password from command prompt that user should type with in 10 seconds,

I am getting "read: Illegal option -t"

Code:
#!/bin/bash                                                                                                                                                                                  
   read -t 10 -p "Enter your password: " password
   echo $password

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