Edit File: readline.sh
#! /bin/bash # source: readline.sh # Copyright Gerhard Rieger and contributors (see file CHANGES) # Published under the GNU General Public License V.2, see file COPYING # this is an attempt for a socat based readline wrapper # usage: readline.sh <command> withhistfile=1 while true; do case "X$1" in X-nh|X-nohist*) withhistfile=; shift; continue ;; *) break;; esac done PROGRAM="$@" if [ "$withhistfile" ]; then HISTFILE="$HOME/.$1_history" HISTOPT=",history=$HISTFILE" else HISTOPT= fi mkdir -p /tmp/$USER || exit 1 # # exec socat -d readline"$HISTOPT",noecho='[Pp]assword:' exec:"$PROGRAM",sigint,pty,setsid,ctty,raw,echo=0,stderr 2>/tmp/$USER/stderr2