With NT, i would imagine most of the Term:: based solutions will not work, but i recall a Term::Progressbar (or something similar) that does pretty well. For NT, i have used either the backspace (^H or \b), but have also used the '.' style.

using a '.', or any charachet, which is just printed for every X percent completed. And on the major percentages (25,50,75) i print the number. So, while it is not pretty, i've done the ^H more than once

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OH, a sarcasm detector, that’s really useful