From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-08T02:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make a cycling counter from commandline?

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Tim Pease wrote:

> $ cat tmp.rb
>
> STDOUT.sync = true
>
> total = ARGV[0] || 15
> count = 1
>
> until count>total
> print "\rRecord #{count} of #{total} processed"
> count += 1
> sleep 0.25
> end
>
> print "\n"
>
>
> That should do you what you want.  The secret is the carriage return
> "\r" at the beginning of the print string. That will bring the cursor
> back to the beginning of the line and then overwrite anything
> currently on that line.
>
> Blessings,
> TwP

man, you learn something every day!  that's pretty sweet.

-a
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