ECHO – Windows CMD Command
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Display messages on screen, turn command-echoing on or off.
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Syntax ECHO [ON | OFF] ECHO [message] ECHO /? Key ON : Display each line of the batch on screen (default) OFF : Only display the command output on screen message : a string of characters to display ? : Display help |
Type ECHO without parameters to display the current echo setting (ON or OFF).
In most batch files you will want ECHO OFF, turning it ON can be useful when debugging a problematic batch script.
In a batch file, the @ symbol at the start of a line is the same as ECHO OFF applied to the current line only.
Normally a command is executed and takes effect from the next line onwards, @ is a rare example of a command that takes effect immediately.
Command characters will normally take precedence over the ECHO statement
e.g. The redirection and pipe characters: & < > | ON OFF
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To override this behaviour you can escape each command character with ^ or : as follows: ECHO Nice ^&Easy ECHO Salary is ^> Commision ECHO Name ^| Username ^| Expiry Date ECHO:Off On Holiday ECHO: /? Will display help Echo text into a FILE The general syntax is: Echo This is some Text > FileName.txt To avoid extra spaces: Echo Some more text>FileName.txt Echo a Variable To display a department variable: ECHO %_department% A more robust alternative is to separate with : instead of a space, the colon will sanitise values like ON /OFF /?. ECHO:%_department% |
If the variable does not exist – ECHO will simply return the text “%_department%”
This can be extended to search and replace parts of a variable or display substrings of a variable.
Echo a file
Use the TYPE command.
Echo a sound
The following command in a batch file will trigger the default beep on most PC’s
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ECHO ^G |
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ECHO ^G To type the BELL character use Ctrl-G or 'Alt' key, and 7 on the numeric keypad. (ascii 7) Alternatively using Windows Media Player: START/min "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" %windir%\media\chimes.wav Echo a blank line The following in a batch file will produce an empty line: Echo. or Echo: The second option is better, because Echo. will search for a file named "echo" if the file is found that raises an error. If the 'echo' file does not exist then the command does work, but this still makes Echo. slightly slower than echo: To ECHO text without including a CR/LF (source) <nul (set/p _any_variable=string to emit) |
Echo text into a stream
Streams allow one file to contain several separate forks of information (like the macintosh resource fork)
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The general syntax is: Echo Text_String > FileName:StreamName |
Only the following commands support the File:Stream syntax – ECHO, MORE, FOR
Creating streams:
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Echo This is stream1 > myfile.dat:stream1 Echo This is stream2 > myfile.dat:stream2 |
Displaying streams:
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More &lt; myfile.dat:stream1 More &lt; myfile.dat:stream2 FOR /f "delims=*" %%G in (myfile.dat:stream1) DO echo %%G FOR /f "delims=*" %%G in (myfile.dat:stream2) DO echo %%G |
A data stream file can be successfully copied and renamed despite the fact that most applications and commands will report a zero-length file. The file size can be calculated from the remaining free space. The file must always reside on an NTFS volume.
ECHO does not set or clear the Errorlevel.
ECHO is an internal command.
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