> Oops! I was testing under bash...apparently echo has a somewhat broken echo > command (as it seems like you already found out). The simple change works > for both bash and ash, and is still smaller: > > Change: > > echo -e -n "\b$i" > > To: > echo -e -n "\b" > echo -n "$i" > > Of course, there's always the alternate tack of: > > while : ; do > for i in 134 174 057 055 ; do > echo -e -n "\b\\$i" > sleep 1 > done > done > > But that's probably even more confusing... Ah ! the beauty of shell scripting :-) Back to original LRP spirit ... A nice suggestion. I buy it ! (a beer is OK ?) Jacques
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