How to show and update echo on same line

Question

I have the following in Bash (In Linux)

for dir in Movies/*
do
  (cd \"$dir\" && pwd|cut -d \\/ -f5|tr -s \'\\n\' \', \' >> ../../movielist &am         


        

Answer 1

If I have understood well, you can get it replacing your echo with the following line:

echo -ne "Movie $movies - $dir ADDED! \033[0K\r"

Here is a small example that you can run to understand its behaviour:

#!/bin/bash
for pc in $(seq 1 100); do
    echo -ne "$pc%\033[0K\r"
    sleep 1
done
echo