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Date:      Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:22:43 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: perl <stdin>
Message-ID:  <200508041122.50087.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <7603e5d805080317593a046eec@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <7603e5d805080317593a046eec@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday 04 August 2005 10:29, Wouter van Rooij wrote:
> My question is:
> How can you, when you're writing a perl program, make a input
> (<stdin>) hidden, so that when someone is typing an input in the
> following program is hidden:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print "Your name:";
> $name =3D <STDIN>
> I would like to get the input like this: ********

This is a Perl question, not a FreeBSD one..
You might want to look up stty and -echo..

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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