11-06-2000
Not sure <I>why</I> you would want to do this, but anyway...
You could probably get clever with Ansi escape codes to move
the cursor around for you:
echo "\033[<STRONG>R</STRONG>;<STRONG>C</STRONG>H"
Puts the cursor at row <STRONG>R</STRONG> and column <STRONG>C</STRONG>
See <A HREF="http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-6.html">http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-6.html</A> for some more examples.
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