Cursor Movement in bash: either echo escape sequences or use tput
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/03
I read [WayBack] Cursor Movement earlier than [WayBack] Colours and Cursor Movement With tput and [WayBack] The Floating Clock Prompt.
So in one of my scripts I’ve now used an escape sequence, but I might change it to tput in a future version:
## Move one line up, then write finished scripts:
echo -e "\033[1A$finished\r"
I would probably have started with put if I had read [WayBack] bash – Set or change vertical position of the cursor – Stack Overflow first.
–jeroen
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