Re: Filtering out carriage returns from terminal progress indicators

[R. Diez]

> Something like this should do the trick:
>
>    $ printf '123\r456\r789\rab\n000\r111\r222\r333\rcd\n' \
>           | LC_ALL=C sed 's/[^\r]*\r//g'
>    ab
>    cd

I just tested it, and it does not fit the bill. It suffers from the same memory consumption problem I described. I guess sed is reading the whole line 
until \n before applying the regular expression. Such a line can be huge if the output comes from a long-running rsync or similar tool.

Regards,
  rdiez