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I know that doing command &> /dev/null suppresses all output file descriptors.

But I notice that it does not work for commands that request input from the user, most notably ssh:

> ssh blah@blah.org &>/dev/null
blah@blah.org's password: 

Where is this output coming from? And why is not supressed?

One way I've found is to look up the process ID, and find file descriptors being used via

lsof -p <pid>

which shows (for example) /dev/pts/3, which I can then do

echo -en "\rMy own Custom Password Input Prompt:" > /dev/pts/3

which overrides the prompt, but this is a workaround at best.

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