what kind of trick is that?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi,

Anyone who've installed and used webmin, probably saw this part:
you're missing a part (like SSL?) and webmin compiles it for you.

What I would like to know is how they did the trick that the page is
constantly updating while downloading/compiling/iinstalling, all the
text appears as it's progress..

I want to write a simple shell script that uses lftp. lftp has this
neat feature that while it downloads, it shows a nice progress bar,
and I want to create a simple script that will show that progress bar
with lftp - on a page without refreshing it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Hetz
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