Help: Command line rotating line

[Florian Diesch]

Chaman Singh Verma <csv610 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am not quite sure if this is the place to ask some specific question about
> linux/unix functionality. So if it
> is not the right place, please ignore this mail.
>
> I have seen many software that uses command line rotating line to indicate
> wait for example
>
> Processing Sequence ....  |    This | line keeps on rotating
>
> and other example
>
> Current iteration number . #  ( In this # keeps on changing on the screen )
>
> Can someone tell me how it is done ? What software I must use which is
> available on ubuntu ?

for i in $(seq 1 20); do
 for c in '/' '-' '\' '|' '/' '-' '|'; do
   printf '\b%s' $c
   /bin/sleep 0.1
 done
done



   Florian
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