Re: (OT-perl) read from stdin without echoing

[Claudio Bley <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 15:35, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Wich commands do i have to use to read from the console (STDIN) witchout the
> chars getting writed to the console like in a password entry?

man perlfunc:

    system "stty -echo";
    print "Password: ";
    chomp($word = <STDIN>);
    print "\n";
    system "stty echo";

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