Console based progress in Java [duplicate]

You can print a carriage return \r to put the cursor back to the beginning of line.

Example:

public class ProgressDemo {
  static void updateProgress(double progressPercentage) {
    final int width = 50; // progress bar width in chars

    System.out.print("\r[");
    int i = 0;
    for (; i <= (int)(progressPercentage*width); i++) {
      System.out.print(".");
    }
    for (; i < width; i++) {
      System.out.print(" ");
    }
    System.out.print("]");
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      for (double progressPercentage = 0.0; progressPercentage < 1.0; progressPercentage += 0.01) {
        updateProgress(progressPercentage);
        Thread.sleep(20);
      }
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
  }
}