stty -echo

[Christian Walther]

On 28/03/07, Apeksha Godiyal <apeksha.godiyal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using the command stty -echo which is supposed to turn of
> displaying characters. But it is not turning off the echoing of typed chars.
>
> Example:
>
> $ stty -echo
> $ echo hi
> hi
> $
>
> Here "echo hi" should not have been printed.
> Is this a bug or have I not interpreted the man pages?

AFAIK it doesn't work in an interactive shell.
But it works in a script, just try something like:

#!/bin/sh
stty -echo
read

> Thanks in advance,
> Apeksha Godiyal

HTH
Christian