How to delete stuff printed to console by System.out.println()?

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You could print the backspace character \b as many times as the characters which were printed before.

System.out.print("hello");
Thread.sleep(1000); // Just to give the user a chance to see "hello".
System.out.print("\b\b\b\b\b");
System.out.print("world");

Note: this doesn’t work flawlessly in Eclipse console in older releases before Mars (4.5). This works however perfectly fine in command console. See also How to get backspace \b to work in Eclipse’s console?

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