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In zsh shell, when you hit Tab twice to get tab completion, your options are displayed below your prompt. But when you make a selection, the options disappear.
I have a little script that outputs passwords to stdout based on keyword search. The only problem is, after I've copied and pasted and I'm done, the passwords stay in the terminal. I would really like to implement this "temporary" output for my passwords script. Is this possible?
On any system that uses terminfo:
printf "The password is %s " "swordfish"
read -r line
tput cuu1; tput el
Press Enter to erase the password and quit, or Ctrl+C to quit immediately. If your system uses termcap, use tput up; tput ce. This code assumes that the cursor is still on the line with the password by the time the user pressed Enter.