Overwrite last line on terminal
bash, escaping, terminal
Solution
In your example you delete the text at the same line. When you want to return to the previous line use `\e[1A`, and to clear that line, use `\e[K`:
echo 'Old line'
echo -e '\e[1A\e[Knew line'
When you want to go `N` lines up, use `\e[<N>A`
Problem
My bash-script looks as following: ``` echo "Description:" while [ $finishInput -eq 0 ]; do read tmp desc="$desc"$'\n'"$tmp" if [ -z "$tmp" ]; then finishInput="1" fi done echo -n "Maintainer:" read maintainer ``` It reads to the desc var until a empty line is passed. After that, i want to read in other stuff. When executing my current script it looks like this: ``` Description: Line 1 Line 2 Maintainer: ``` I would like to overwrite the last empty line with the "Maintainer:". I searched for a solution but only found suggestions which were like ``` echo -n "Old line" echo -e "\r new line" ``` which stays on the line and overwrites it. This is not possible in my case.