console progress bar?

[karabaja4]

i am building a project.

i would like to make a progress bar in linux console, like this:

|=================> |

but i dont have any idea how to do it. i am using pure C.

only thing i can think of is to clear the whole screen and rewrite it again, but i was hoping for a more elegant solution.

thanks.

[-Bewa-]

using clear would make it look like this:
|
|>
|=>
and so on (the command clear is afaik not clearing the text printed till now, just scrolling down so the prompt (example: # for root) is in the most upper line visible):

<start of text>
line one
line two
clear
<here the shell becomes visible>
#
(free space)
(free space)
<here the shell-window ends>

for better understanding: type clear when you have some output in the shell, for example ls. then use shift+arrows to scroll up.

Now, back to your problem. I haven't got my shell-script-book lying around, so you will have to look the details up - should be similiar in c.

After you outputtet the line
|==>
you make a carriage-return (not a new line, just go to the beginning of the current line!) and overwrite it. It may be a character like this: \r
Experiment a little with it and you can change not only the last line, but several lines (like wget does).

[shamanvirtuel]

check this :

http://pusling.com/index.php?ID=10&lang=en