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Hi,

Can anyone help me with controlling the cursor position from a shell script. Things like moving left,right,up,down etc

Anyone have any ideas?
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Use tput, e.g. to move the cursor up one line...
Code:
tput cuu1

See the manual pages for terminfo for more details.
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using tput
Many thanks - problem cracked!
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