How do I erase printed characters in a console application(Linux)?

Question

I am creating a small console app that needs a progress bar. Something like...

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Answer 1

\r did the trick.

For future reference, \b does not work in PHP in Linux. I was curious - so I did a couple of experiments in other languages as well(I did this in Linux - I don't know if the result will be the same in Windows/Mac)..

\b Works in...

• Perl
• Ruby
• Tcl - with code puts -nonewline "Hello\b"

\b Doesn't work in

• PHP - the code print "Hello\b"; prints out Hello\b
• Python - code print "Hello\b" prints out Hello . Same result with print "Hello\b",