Overwriting text on terminal with Java, issue with Console.read*

Question

I know there are hundreds of questions asking how to update already written text on console and I know I can do it printing the \\r character.

My issue comes when I use

Answer 1

In principle, this is terminal dependent, and with simple Java means there is no way to do this for all consoles.

Many terminals (at least in unixoid systems) support ANSI-escape sequences, so you can there write something like "\u001B[1;5H" to move the cursor to line 1, columnn 5.