Shell commands - printing text to terminal

[castiglione]

I was just wondering if it were possible to print text to a specific screen location using shell commands?

I.e. Print "Test" at line 2, horizontal space 5, and things of that nature, overwriting pre-existing text if necessary?

Thanks in advance!

c

[codemaniac]

I was just wondering if it were possible to print text to a specific screen location using shell commands?

I.e. Print "Test" at line 2, horizontal space 5, and things of that nature, overwriting pre-existing text if necessary?

Thanks in advance!

c

If you want to format your output in a terminal , there are many tools available like awk , perl or Bash-builtin commands like echo , printf .

The below command would print two newlines and 4 spaces prefixed with "Text" .

printf "\n\n%-4sText"


However not clear what exactly you are trying to achieve .
It would be helpful if you post your requirement clearly .

[Habitual]

I was just wondering if it were possible to print text to a specific screen location using shell commands?...

It is!
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x405.html

tput is the command you are looking for. :)

Edit: Here's what it looks like (yellow is just highlighting, NOT in the code I posted!http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx360/E522260/Screenshot.png

Here's the code that generated the output:
http://susepaste.org/36118090

HTH further. :)