How to animate the command line?

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Published on 2008-09-13T00:53:10Z Indexed on 2012/07/04 9:16 UTC
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I have always wondered how people update a previous line in a command line. a great example of this is when using the wget command in linux. It creates an ASCII loading bar of sorts that looks like this:

[======>                    ] 37%

and of course the loading bar moves and the percent changes, But it doesn't make a new line. I cannot figure out how to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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