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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Control cursor position also at bottom of window Post 303043713 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 4th of February 2020 09:44:24 PM
Old 02-04-2020
I think the carriage return at the end of the input is scrolling up the terminal. How about prompting for a single Y or N response (no need to CR):

Code:
#!/bin/bash
  
# -----
# function: askYesOrNo
# purpose : ask question passed as $1
# return  : 0 if answer was y or Y,
#           1 otherwise
# -----
function askYesOrNo {
        printf "\e[s"                           # save cursor x-pos

        while true ; do
                printf "\e[1;31;47m$1 [Y|n]\e[0m "      # print $1 in color
                read -n 1 answer
                case $answer in
                   Y|y|N|n) break;;
                esac
                # restore cursor x-pos
               printf "\e[u"
        done
        # restore cursor x-pos, erase rest of line
        printf "\e[u\e[K"
        # set return status
        [ "${answer^}" == "Y" ]
}


for (( i = 100, max = 110; i <= max; i++ )) ; do
        printf " %d\n" $i
        if [ $i -eq $max ] ; then
                if askYesOrNo "Do you wish to continue?" ; then
                        (( max += 10 ))
                fi
        fi
done

 

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Net::CLI::Interact::Role::Iterator(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Net::CLI::Interact::Role::Iterator(3pm)

NAME
Net::CLI::Interact::Role::Iterator - Array-based Iterator VERSION
version 1.121640 SYNOPSIS
my $count = $iter->count; $iter->reset; while ( $iter->has_next ) { print $iter->next; } DESCRIPTION
This module implements an array-based iterator which may be mixed-in to add management of a sequence of elements and processing of that sequence. The iterator is inspired by MooseX::Iterator but limited to arrays and adds many other facilities. The following section describes the methods provided by this class. USAGE
The slot used for storing iterator elements is named "_sequence" and you should write your consuming class to marshall data into this slot, perhaps via "BUILD" or "init_arg". For example: has '+_sequence' => ( isa => 'ArrayRef[Thingy]', init_arg => 'things', ); INTERFACE
count The number of elements currently stored in the iterator. Note that this is of course not the same as the index of the last item in the iterator (which is 0-based) first Returns the first item in the iterator. last Returns the last item in the iterator. item_at( $pos ) Returns the item at the given position in the iterator, or throws an exception if $pos is past the end of the iterator. The position is 0-based. insert_at( $pos, $iter ) Inserts the contents of the passed iterator starting at (not after) the position given. The passed iterator must also be a consumer of this role. The position is 0-based. append( $iter ) Shorthand for "insert_at" when you want to add the contents of the passed iterator after the end of the sequence. idx( $pos? ) Returns the index (0-based) of the current iterator cursor, or sets the cursor if a position (again, 0-based) is passed. An exception is thrown if you attempt to read the cursor position before having read any elements from the iterator, or if the iterator is empty. next Returns the next item in the iterator sequence, and advances the cursor. Throws an exception if you have already reached the end of the sequence. has_next Returns true if there are further elements to be read from the iterator. peek Returns the next item in the sequence without advancing the position of the cursor. It returns "undef" if you are already at the end of the sequence. reset Resets the cursor so you can iterate through the sequence of elements again. AUTHOR
Oliver Gorwits <oliver@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Oliver Gorwits. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-12 Net::CLI::Interact::Role::Iterator(3pm)
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