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Please NOTE! this is a NOT recommended method of hiding passwords, but to answer your question, keep the password from being seen?

Look at Term::ReadKey 

#! /use/bin/perl
use strict;
use Term::ReadKey;

ReadMode( "noecho");
print "Enter pwd please :";
chomp (my $pwd = <>);
ReadMode ("original") ;
print "\nYou typed $pwd!\n";

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Update: This has been tested on a Win32 platform.

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Re: Re: Reading password from STDIN without echoing
by gitarwmn (Beadle) on Nov 14, 2003 at 19:09 UTC
    So you mention that the above is not the recommoned method of hiding passwords. Can I ask what is? By the way thanks for answering my question.
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