Julian Kessel's Blog

I wondered about how to clear a line in a shellscript which uses \r to do a carriage return and reuse the same line to output some text:

While the CR does not clear the contents of the line, you have to do that yourself:

  echo -ne "\033[2K\r"`echo $i | awk '{$1=""; print $0}'`

I use that line to display a string in a loop as described above. The \033 is nothing else than the escaped octal notation of \e which is ESC.

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