What does “\r” do in the following script?
The ‘\r’ character is the carriage return, and the carriage return-newline pair is both needed for newline in a network virtual terminal session. From the old telnet specification (RFC 854) (page 11): The sequence “CR LF”, as defined, will cause the NVT to be positioned at the left margin of the next print line (as would, for example, the … Read more