Does Mathematica provide any way to print text to the terminal without a newline at the end when running in command line mode? There are many workarounds with the notebook interface, but this question is specifically about the command line.
I would like to use this for more detailed progress monitoring on a headless machine. The only solution I could think of so far is using LibraryLink to do the printing, which isn't that bad actually as I do already have a LibraryLink component in this program.
To sum up, I want a print
function so that
Do[Pause[1]; print["."], {5}]
produces
.....
in a terminal session and the dots appear gradually.