The "." character is printed on a new line every 2s to indicate that the discovery process is running. However, using a new line unnecessary floods the output log; switch to printing "." without a newline, keeping the activity indicator while also drastically reducing the number of lines in the output log.
The "." character is printed on a new line every 2s to indicate that the discovery process is running. However, using a new line unnecessary floods the output log; switch to printing "." without a newline, keeping the activity indicator while also drastically reducing the number of lines in the output log.