On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:26 PM, Martin Redington wrote:
Try the following:
perl -e 'for($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++){ print STDERR "$i"; sleep 1 ; print STDERR "\r"}'
(I used STDERR, to avoid buffering of stdout. There is a way to disable this, but I can't recall it off the top of my head).
iirc, you can turn off the buffering with:
STDOUT->autoflush (1); -Dan