tic binary operators return true if arg1 is equal to, not equal to, less than, less than or equal to, greater than, or greater than or equal to arg2, respectively. Arg1 and arg2 may be positive or negat
luding whether or not characters should be echoed to the terminal. To turn off echoing, the command stty -echo can be u... ommands typed at the shell) will not be echoed.
To restore the echoing, use stty echo. However, it is poor programming to make the assumption that echo is on. In some case... be that every character typed will appear twice.
To avoid this, a neat stty trick is used in which th... e read. The following code will read a password into the variable secret:
<code bash>
stty_orig=`stt