Braile spinner for shell scripts -- Taken from https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall/issues/68

spinner.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Copyright Notice:
# This spinner script has been taken from
# https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall/issues/68

spin()
{
    spinners=(⠋ ⠙ ⠹ ⠸ ⠼ ⠴ ⠦ ⠧ ⠇ ⠏)
    msg=$1
    fg="\e[34m"
    reset_color="\e[0m"

    # hide cursor
    tput civis

    while true
    do
        for spinner in "${spinners[@]}"
        do
            sleep 0.05
            printf " $fg$spinner$reset_color \e[1m$msg\r" 2>/dev/null
        done
    done

    # show cursor
    tput cnorm || true
}

spin "Updating something"

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