Re: hiding input

[cianoz]

as many have told you, you should install and use Term::Readkey, however there is another (dirty) way (at least on unix):

system('stty -echo');
print "insert key:";
$key = <STDIN>;
system('stty echo');

[Octavian]

tried this, and it works great...I am gonna have to use this method. I played around with installing the module on our test box, just to learn a little on how it all works n stuff, but the powers that be wont let me install "extra stuff" on all of our servers. so this is a great alternative...thank you ;)