Command Line Progress Percent Display, no echo

[dlite922]

I want to display the progress of a job (a cron job) in PHP.

I can do an echo, but the result will look like this:

1%2%3%4%

How do you "backspace" and over-write the percentage with the new value.

I don't know where to begin looking for this. What do you even call this to do a Google search?

Dan

[dlite922]

I found this:
http://snippets.dzone. com/posts/show/3760

How can i get that to work in PHP. shell_exec() ?

[Atli]

Just add a \r in front of you output. That should cause the echo to overwrite the previous line.
Like:
[code=php]
<?php
for($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
echo "\r$i% Completed...";
usleep(200000);
}
?>
[/code]
That is assuming you are displaying this in a Linux terminal?

[dlite922]

Just add a \r in front of you output. That should cause the echo to overwrite the previous line.
Like:
[code=php]
<?php
for($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
echo "\r$i% Completed...";
usleep(200000);
}
?>
[/code]
That is assuming you are displaying this in a Linux terminal?

Thanks, that was easy.

yes of course Linux :D