Re: RFE: Echo dots option for 'read -s'
Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
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On 12/15/25 10:39 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote: > I imagine it's fairly rare to have “read -e -s” in existing code, since “- > e” is /currently/ pointless when “-s” is in effect It works the same as without -e if you don't use editing commands, and editing commands work -- you just can't see their effect because readline is not echoing. By that I mean you can run read -es -p 'Password: ' PASS and enter abcde^B^B^Brst and `echo $PASS' will display abrstcde So by `pointless' you must mean that users can't see the effect of their editing commands -- something that would not be changed by echoing some other character in place of the text in the line buffer. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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