show "compressing ..." without line break

localdump.sh

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
   # shared function in localdump_*
   # param  string  filename of uncompressed output file
   function compress_file(){
-    echo compressing $1 ...
+    echo -n compressing $1 ...
     gzip -9 -f "${1}"
     fetchrc
   }