Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:38:15 -0400 From: Michael Beattie <mtbeedee@gmail.com> To: Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl <stdin> Message-ID: <d4b4435a0508031838516cd4d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7603e5d8050803181766be524b@mail.gmail.com> References: <7603e5d805080317593a046eec@mail.gmail.com> <7603e5d8050803181766be524b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/3/05, Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com> wrote: > \ >=20 > Hello, >=20 > At the first place, sorry for my bad English. > 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: ******** >=20 You might be able to redirect STDOUT to nowhere and then when there's a character pressed write a '*' to STDOUT or something.
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