Shell Programming and Scripting

while true ; do
i='-\|/'
for j in 1 2 3 4
do
echo -ne "$(echo ${i} | cut -c${j})"
sleep 1
done
done

this currently outputs:
-\|/-\|/-\|/-\| .....etc

while true ; do
i='-/|\'
for j in 1 2 3 4
do
printf "%c\r $(echo ${i} | cut -c${j})"
sleep 0.25
done
done

while true
do
   i='-\|/'
   for j in 1 2 3 4
   do
      echo -ne "\b$(echo ${i} | cut -c${j})"
      sleep 1
   done
done

for i in \- / \| \\
do
printf "%c\r" "$i"
done

indi=( "/" "-" "\\" "|" )
C=0
while [ true ]
do    printf "\b${indi[$C]}"
      let C++
      [[ $C -gt 3 ]] && C=0
done

SP='-/|\'
while true; do printf "\b%s" ${SP:i++%4:1}; sleep 0.1; done

Last login: Mon Sep 30 19:34:05 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> clear; star=""; i='-\|/*'; for k in {0..9}; do for j in {0..4}; do clear; printf "\n\n\n\n\n          $star${i:$j:1}"; sleep 0.25; done; star="$star"'*'; done; printf "\n\n"