consider using a "spinner" which twirls in place
- Hmm, spinner, spinner, spinner
- Term::Spinner - A progress spinner for commandline programs
- Dancer::Logger::Spinner - Show a spinner in the console on Dancer log messages!
- Game::Pexeso::Spinner - A spinner used to show progress.
- Acme::Spinner - A trivial example of one of those activity spinners
- ProgressMonito - a flexible and configurable framework for providing feedback on how a long-running task is proceeding
- Wx::Perl::Throbber - An animated throbber/spinner
- Term::Twiddle - Twiddles a thingy while-u-wait
- Term::MultiSpinner - Term::Spinner with multiple spinners
- http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/UI::Dialog::Backend::ASCII#spinner(_)
Good call quester :)