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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Carriage return ksh Post 302588789 by LiorAmitai on Tuesday 10th of January 2012 02:05:07 AM
Old 01-10-2012
Tools Carriage return ksh

Hello,

How do i usecarriage return in ksh.
I want to do an echo "bla bla" and another echo "bla bla" will appear and replace the first echo on screen.

I tried:
Code:
until [ -z "$answer" ]; do
   echo "bla bla \r"
done

please advice.

Thanks.

Last edited by methyl; 01-10-2012 at 09:37 AM.. Reason: repaired code tags
 

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