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by fragmede 38 days ago
Which is how you do the fun spinny icons on the command line without having to invoke ncurses!
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You can also just use a \r directly without a \n. For example:

    spin='/-\|'
    while true; do 
      i=$(( (i+1) % 4 ))
      printf "\r${spin:$i:1} Working..."
      sleep 0.1
    done
By the way yes, that is a subtle reference to the TOS computer, so it's best read in that voice :-)