Hide your Shell commands

Today I came across a neat, but pointless shell command. By running the following in shell, it will hide any commands you run.

root@server2 [/]# stty -echo

In order to disable this mode, simply remove the “-” before echo.

root@server2 [/]# stty echo

I guess there really is no point to the command, though you could always mess with your coworkers if they leave their shell prompt open

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