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Re: Print / overwrite line

From:
John W. Krahn
Date:
January 3, 2002 17:15
Subject:
Re: Print / overwrite line
Message ID:
3C35022B.E3EA6061@acm.org
Gary Hawkins wrote:
> 
> How can I clear a line before replacing it?
> 
> Am doing \r and overwriting, but sometimes the text that was there previously
> is longer than the new text.

Pad the shorter lines with spaces.  For example:

printf "\r%-20s", $something;



John
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