Question

How would I print a spinning curser in a utility that runs in a terminal using standard C?

I’m looking for something that prints: \ | / – over and over in the same position on the screen?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could use the backspace character (\b) like this:

printf('processing... |'); fflush(stdout); // do something printf('\b/'); fflush(stdout); // do some more printf('\b-'); fflush(stdout); 

etc. You need the fflush(stdout) because normally stdout is buffered until you output a newline.