Hello. I'm creating a script in Bash, and i would like to

>>253870
>>253870
echo -n
sleep
echo -n
sleep
echo -n
sleep

This is really stupid though. Doing this isn't what bash is for. It's lime writing a game in excel, or using quakeC to manage your files.

>>253888
>Doing this isn't what bash is for.
If you can do it, why you shouldnt? It's not like there is a law or something aganist it.
ALSO, pacman itself uses this feature in the progress bar during download and installing of packets, so it's not like "i'm doing something new"


One Question:
This way, if i want to do something progressive for a line of text, i have to put every single line

>>253928
And you could write it in Befunge or InterCAL too.

After all, Turing-complete is Turing-complete!

As to your question, you could probably use a loop with some bash string-slicing and bash arithmetic.

>>253936
Well, thanks for your help m8, i've found also that putting /r at the end makes it perfectly suitable for my purpose.
Now i'm working on the loop, i think i'll create a function that will be called instead of echo

>>253870
>>253938
I tried it.
Whitespaces didn't work.

@echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
@echo off
set "var=I'm, a text"
set len=20

FOR /L %%A IN (0,1,%len%) DO (
set varr= !var:~%%A,1!
echo|set /p=!varr!
)

Good luck anon!

item="string goes here."

for i in $(seq 0 ${#item})
do
echo -n "${item:$i:1}"
sleep 0.05
done
echo