How to display and refresh multiple lines in bash

Question

I am writing a installation script and would like to display the status of the script as it progresses.

example:

var1="pending"
var2="pending"
var3="pending"

print_status () {
echo "Status of Item 1 is: "$var1""
echo "Status of Item 2 is: "$var2""
echo "Status of Item 3 is: "$var3""
}

code that does something and then refreshes the
output above as the status of each variable changes.

Answer 1

This code should give you the idea:

while :; do
    echo "$RANDOM"
    echo "$RANDOM"
    echo "$RANDOM"
    sleep 0.2
    tput cuu1 # move cursor up by one line
    tput el # clear the line
    tput cuu1
    tput el
    tput cuu1
    tput el
done

Use man tput for more info. To see the list of capabilities use man terminfo

Answer 2

Look at this:

while true; do echo -ne "`date`\r"; done

and this:

declare arr=(
  ">...."
  ".>..."
  "..>.."
  "...>."
  "....>"
)

for i in ${arr[@]}
do
  echo -ne "${i}\r"
  sleep 0.1
done