Re: Proposed patch to datacopy to allow passwords to be read from stdin

"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:16:24 +0000 (UTC)
Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> > called "getpass".  Now the command:
> >
> >   datacopy -S$S/$U/$(getpass $S)/$D/$T ...
> >
> > does the job.
> 
> This still shows in the command line, though.

No, what shows on the command line is "$(getpass $S)".  That's what you
type in; that's what shows in ps(1).  That's what will be in any log of
the script.  

We seem to be talking past each other.  What are you referring to?  

--jkl
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