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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@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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