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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Subject: [doc] read -qs
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 22:04:41 +0100
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The doc for the "read" builtin has:

     -s
          Don't echo back characters if reading from the terminal.
          Currently does not work with the -q option.
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Why? It seems to work for me (no echo when I do "read -qs").

(zsh 5.0.5)

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Stephane