Request for enhancement:It would be nice if there were an option to the 'read' builtin to echo dots rather that nothing at all, as is the case with 'read -s' (silent). This would provide some feedback when entering sensitive info such as a password.
I dived into the code (with the help of Google AI pointing to 'read.def'), but it became apparent that this would be non-trivial.
(The low-level code is in lib/readline/readline.c .) Thanks for considering -- -- Bruce Jerrick
