CR — Carriage Return

Byte	0x0D
Mnemonic	CR
Otty support	✓

Description

Moves the cursor to column 1 of the current row. Does not change the row.

A typical "newline" is CR LF (\r\n) — CR to the leftmost column, LF down one row. On Unix-line-ending files, \n (LF) is enough only because LNM mode is off and shells issue an implicit CR via NEL-style logic; raw printf '\n' mid-line moves down without resetting the column.

Example

printf 'loading\r'             # cursor returns to col 1 on the same line
printf 'loading\rdone   \n'    # overwrites with "done   "

CR is also handy for progress bars: emit \r then redraw the line.

Related

• LF
• NEL — explicit "next line".