I'm not positive, but I believe you'll need a cpan module like Curses

Of course the easiest method is just to combine your dynamic text to a single line so that you can stick to just using \r

my @dirs = map {chomp; $_} <DATA>;

my $i = 0;
my $lastlen = 0;

local $| = 1;

for my $dir (@dirs) {
    $i++;

    my $output = "<-- " . int($i / @dirs * 100) . " ($i/" . @dirs . ")
+ complete, $dir -->";
    substr($output, 60) = '' if length $output > 60; # Truncate

    
    print "\r$output";

    # Cover longer lines
    my $len = length $output;
    print ' ' x ($lastlen - $len) if $lastlen > $len;
    $lastlen = $len;
    
    sleep 1;
}

__DATA__
/etc/hosts
/foo/bar
/boo/bazinga
/baz
/foo/bin
/foo/bin2
/foo/bin3
/foo/bin4
/foo/z
/zar

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In reply to Re: Multi-line Status while script is running by wind
in thread Multi-line Status while script is running by lavermil

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