Rewinding std::cout to go back to the beginning of a line

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Published on 2010-06-16T23:46:10Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 23:52 UTC
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I'm writing a command-line tool for Mac OS X that processes a bunch of files. I would like to show the user the current file being processed, but do not want a bazillion files polluting the terminal window.

Instead I would like to use a single line to output the file path, then reuse that line for the next file. Is there a character (or some other code) to output to std::cout to accomplish this?

Also, if I wanted to re-target this tool for Windows, would the solution be the same for both platforms?

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