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

This does not completely solve your problem but might help; to print the status after the execution of each command, modify PS1 like this:

PS1='$PS1 $( print_status )'