Tim Johnson wrote:
That doesn't work on my WinXP, but this does...
perl -e "$|=1; print \"\rLine $_\" and sleep 1 for 1..3; print \"\n\""
Its because you used double quotes instead of single quotes to surround
the expression and need to escape the internal ones :)
Try this (paste it exactly as i
Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
Does the \r solution work on winders (I don't have any Winders computers)
also?
perl -e '$|=1; print "\rLine $_" and sleep 1 for 1..3; print "\n"'
I've just successfully tested it on the Cygwin version of Perl, both
cool, thanks!
f
That doesn't work on my WinXP, but this does...
perl -e "$|=1; print \"\rLine $_\" and sleep 1 for 1..3; print \"\n\""
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From: JupiterHost.Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
> Does the \r solution work on winders (I don't have any Winders computers)
> also?
>
> perl -e '$|=1; print "\rLine $_" and sleep 1 for 1..3; print "\n"'
I've just successfully tested it on the Cygwin version of Perl, both
from a local DOS window and
I've seen a Damian Conway presentation where he faked out this
behavior by prefixing all output with enough backspace ("\h")
characters to wipe out the previous output and display a new line.
I guess you mean \b, not \h :-)
That must've been it then :)
That does work for me under Win2k.
Does the
From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
>
> > I'd like the line to change as it runs, sort of an animated
> > delivery:
>
> I've seen a Damian Conway presentation where he faked out this
> behavior by prefixing all output with enough backspace ("\h")
>
Does that make sense :) ??
Yes. Just print a \r to move the cursor back to the beginning of the line.
perl -e '$|=1; print "\rLine $_" and sleep 1 for 1..3; print "\n"'
Nice, that does it perfectly, thanks Bob for the \r
Thanks also to Chris for the same idea but different character :)
Have a gdoo
JupiterHost.Net wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've seen this done, but am not sure what its called or where to start
> looking...
>
> Instead of the output of a script via CLI being:
>
> # perl script.pl
> line1
> line2
> line3
> etc
> #
>
> I'd like the line to change as it runs, sort of an animate
Chris Devers wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
I'd like the line to change as it runs, sort of an animated delivery:
I've seen a Damian Conway presentation where he faked out this behavior
by prefixing all output with enough backspace ("\h") characters to wipe
out the previous
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
> I'd like the line to change as it runs, sort of an animated delivery:
I've seen a Damian Conway presentation where he faked out this behavior
by prefixing all output with enough backspace ("\h") characters to wipe
out the previous output and display
Hello list,
I've seen this done, but am not sure what its called or where to start
looking...
Instead of the output of a script via CLI being:
# perl script.pl
line1
line2
line3
etc
#
I'd like the line to change as it runs, sort of an animated delivery:
As soon as its run it'd look like this:
# p
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