I was not familiar with escape sequences. This works like a charm.
Thanks William.
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM William Bader <williamba...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> The sequence below will write each line to row 2 of the screen.
> If you can arrange the output of your commands to start with a prefix, you
> could parse the prefix from the parallel output to set the row and then
> replace the \033[2;1H sequence with \033[${row};1H
> while read -r line ; do echo "\033[2;1H\033[2K$line" ; done
>
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> Subject: Possible to have fixed output positions for multiple commands
>
> Is it possible to make parallel run multiple commands
>
> $ parallel cmd ::: A B C
>
> And display the output as
>
> $ parallel cmd ::: A B C
> A: <last line from cmd A>
> B: <last line from cmd B>
> C: <last line from cmd C>
>
> Where the last line from each command output is always displayed
> in-place in real time at the same position, overwriting the previous
> line from the same command, and the name to identify each command is
> configurable by the user?
>
> I skimmed through the document, couldn't really find the answer.
> Wonder if it's possible at all?
>
