Rewinding std::cout to go back to the beginning of a line

Question

I\'m writing a command-line tool for Mac OS X that processes a bunch of files. I would like to show the user the current file being processed, but do not want a bazillion fi

Answer 1

"\r" should work for both windows and Mac OS X.

Something like:

std::cout << "will not see this\rwill see this" << std::flush;
std::cout << std::endl; // all done