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Comment by oneeyedpigeon

6 months ago

I think the idea is that each character overwrites the previous, so you're never showing the total length (apart from 0/1!)

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jadamson  6 months ago

Ah, and the characters are supposed to be an ASCII spinner.

I think if I was new to Linux that would confuse the life out of me :)

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