nixCraft

Dear Friends ,

I have to find this site the following script :
read -s -p "Enter Password: " mypassword
which helps to run a script with prompt for a password . It works fine in Linux . Using this I make a RMAN script for Oracle which is also works fine . My script is :

read -s -p "Enter passwd: " mypass
rman target sys/$mypass@onlinete << !
run
{
allocate channel t1 type disk;
backup format 'df_%t_%s_%p'
(database);}

But This script is not wokring in AIX -5.3 unix . Here in this unix I cannot run this script using "read" command .

Can anybody plz help me , How can I use "read" command in AIX unix Like Linux ?
Waiting for ur kind reply .. ..