How to display and refresh multiple lines in bash

Question

I am writing a installation script and would like to display the status of the script as it progresses.

example:

var1=\"pending\"
var2=\"pending\"
va         


        

Answer 1

Look at this:

while true; do echo -ne "`date`\r"; done

and this:

declare arr=(
  ">...."
  ".>..."
  "..>.."
  "...>."
  "....>"
)

for i in ${arr[@]}
do
  echo -ne "${i}\r"
  sleep 0.1
done