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Old 01-30-2009
Expect program with password as arg

Hi,

I have written Expect script that takes root password as argument, and executes another script. The another script prompts for password, which Expect feeds. But Expect shows the password on stdout and in the log. Is there a way to suppress it?
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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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