I've been thinking about this for a while, and even though it's not really important, I would like to get it in. I've got a script which, on average, processes about 10,000 files each time it's run, taking a minute or two to finish. Since having no feedback is not an option, I opted to have a "File X of Y finished..." line printed after each file. While this gives the user feedback, it also gives him 10,000 lines of useless text on the terminal. Any ideas on how to re-write a line repeatedly and quickly in Perl? I'd prefer to do a percentage counter with, possibly, a fsck type progress bar. As far as I know Perl can't do screen refreshes, but perhaps there's a library for it out there somewhere? Any suggestions? -Alex
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