# Easy way to update text in terminal (instead of printing more text)?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** cli
**Created:** [May 27, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818 "2022-05-27T22:04:21Z")
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### Author:  [@greatpet](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/greatpet)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/1 "2022-05-27T22:04:21Z")
I would like to show progress of a `for` loop, updating the text like like “1/100”, “2/200”, until “100/100”. The rest of the program, before or after the loop, would print text in the usual way without changing old text. How should I do this?
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/2 "2022-05-27T22:08:49Z")
See [GitHub - timholy/ProgressMeter.jl: Progress meter for long-running computations](https://github.com/timholy/ProgressMeter.jl)
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/3 "2022-05-27T22:12:43Z")
In particular, this is done with [ANSI escape sequences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code), as in [this example](https://github.com/timholy/ProgressMeter.jl/blob/83e619faed2780ab5d6929777c8f6151e3b88c5e/src/ProgressMeter.jl#L614-L625)
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/4 "2022-05-27T23:06:14Z")
[Linking here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-variable-in-logged-message-without-printing-a-new-line/32755/3) one example of ANSI escape sequence suggested by Steve.
And sample code here below for easier reference:
```julia
for n in 1:100
print("Iteration number $n/100\u001b[1000D")
sleep(0.002) # to simulate code waiting time
end
```
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/5 "2022-05-27T23:12:33Z")
There is also the simple `print("\r")` solution:
```julia
for i in 1:100
print("\rIteration: $(i)/100")
sleep(0.002) # to simulate code waiting time
end
```
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### Author:  [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/6 "2024-03-02T16:35:48Z")
> [@rafael.guerra](#):
>
> ```julia
> for i in 1:100
> print("\rIteration: $(i)/100")
> sleep(0.002) # to simulate code waiting time
> end
>
> ```
Unfortunately this seems not to work in Jupyter notebooks in vscode, it just prints a bunch of lines.
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/7 "2024-03-02T19:20:56Z")
> [@e3c6](#):
>
> Unfortunately this seems not to work in Jupyter notebooks in vscode
Works for me:
(vscode 1.87.0 on Mac.) vscode had an issue with ANSI escapes at one point, but it was supposedly fixed years ago ([vscode#112178](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/112178)).
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### Author:  [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-way-to-update-text-in-terminal-instead-of-printing-more-text/81818/8 "2024-03-02T20:50:48Z")
That’s strange. For me it definitely prints new lines. Note that there are still open issues, which I think might be related to this, e.g.: [Which terminal control/escape sequences need to be supported? · Issue #271 · timholy/ProgressMeter.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/timholy/ProgressMeter.jl/issues/271), and [Notebook output must support more ANSI sequences · Issue #118833 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/118833).
I have no clue what setting might be make things different for me. I also have vscode 1.87 on Mac.