Can java do a timer on command line by overwriting the time on the same line?

Question

HI I am a new java programmer (very new).

What I want to do/test is (not sure if its recommendable or doable?), we know that

System.out.println("Message");

will output the "Message" in command prompt. Is it possible to display the current time, without having to repeatly use the system.out.println()?

Name, like instead of displaying:

10:00:01
10:00:02
10:00:03

I wand to have liek this: 10:00:0X where X will continue counting

Answer 1

If you emit a \r (carriage-return) instead of a \n (line-end), in most terminals, the cursor will go back to the start of the same line, so you can "overwrite" the line next time. println automatically adds a \n, but you can use System.out.print (without the ln part;-) to avoid that (you may also have to call method flush to make sure everything you printed was actually output, as opposed to being held in a memory buffer).