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Command line terminal control. Look up the things you can do in "man terminfo". For example, "tput clear" will clear the screen, while "tput cols" will tell you how wide your terminal is. Try this:
echo "hello world" echo "Input please" tput up tput up tput nd tput nd tput nd tput nd tput nd tput el read akey
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tput cup row col positions the cursor to any location on the screen. For example:
tput cup 10 50;echo "testing 1 2 3"
will print on row 10 at column 50. The coordinates are zero-based.
--BigDumbDinosaur
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