On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:34:40PM +0100, sky...@top-email.net wrote: > Without the -n option, the read command is always terminated with a line break
Untrue. Without -s, read simply echoes what the user types. That includes that newline (Enter) that normally terminates input (unless overridden by -d or -n or -N). E.g.: wooledg:~$ read -s -p "Password: " password; echo "got it" Password: got it wooledg:~$ There's no "line break" after I enter the password, because the -s option suppresses echoing back my input, which includes the Enter. If I want a newline there, it's my job as the script writer to print one.
