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

My favorite way is called do the sleep to 50. here i variable need to be used inside echo statements.

for i in $(seq 1 50); do
  echo -ne "$i%\033[0K\r"
  sleep 50
done
echo "ended"