Difference between \n and \r?

Question

What’s the difference between \\n (newline) and \\r (carriage return)?

In particular, are there any practical differences between

Answer 1

To complete,

In a shell (bash) script, you can use \r to send cursor, in front on line and, of course \n to put cursor on a new line.

For example, try :

echo -en "AA--AA" ; echo -en "BB" ; echo -en "\rBB"

• The first "echo" display AA--AA
• The second : AA--AABB
• The last : BB--AABB

But don't forget to use -en as parameters.