From fae1a398bde56c6cd3ec7ef565a32089b017389c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kurtis Rader <krader@skepticism.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:30:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] document new `read --silent` flag

---
 doc_src/read.txt | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc_src/read.txt b/doc_src/read.txt
index 0e16747d1..a393ec798 100644
--- a/doc_src/read.txt
+++ b/doc_src/read.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ The following options are available:
 
 - `-g` or `--global` makes the variables global.
 
+- `-i` or `--silent` makes the characters typed obfuscated. This is useful for reading things like passwords or other sensitive information. Note that in bash the short flag is `-s`. We can't use that due to the existing use as an alias for `--shell`.
+
 - `-l` or `--local` makes the variables local.
 
 - `-m NAME` or `--mode-name=NAME` specifies that the name NAME should be used to save/load the history file. If NAME is fish, the regular fish history will be available.