Executing coprocess causes echo of input to be lost 1

[SteveR77]

When I run a Korn shell script in Solaris that has a statement like -

passwd 2>/dev/null |&

Once I exit from the script I can no longer see my keyboard input even though it is still being accecpted.

The only resolution that I have is to exit and come back into the environment.

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

 

[RodKnowlton]

The passwd command turns off echo on the tty, so you can expect the keyboard input to disappear until passwd exits, or until you expressly reenable echo, like so:

stty echo



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L

 

[stefanwagner]

'reset' my work too - but not sure about that...

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[SteveR77]

Thanks everyone. The stty echo worked, and will work in every UNIX/Linux environment.