apix kernel wrote: > how does "it" knows how big is the line in order to print the DONE > part just before the end of line.
There are two ways I know of:
- If you use bash (I don't know about other shells), look at the
COLUMNS environment variable:
echo $COLUMNS
- Use the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl on stdin (file descriptor 0).
HTH.
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