How can you echo a newline in batch files?

Echo hello && echo. World This means you could define && echo. As a constant for a newline.

3 Also works without period: echo hello && echo world – Alexander Prokofyev Oct 10 '08 at 9:14 the example doesn't need a period, but you do need one to echo a blank empty line: echo. && echo hello && echo. && echo world – matt wilkie Jun 16 at 22:37 Can you do this with a single echo so it can be redirected to a file?

– Shahbaz Oct 25 at 20:36.

– Brian R. Bondy Sep 25 '08 at 11:52 1 Ah. Beat me by 30 seconds.

:) – Raithlin Sep 25 '08 at 11:52 Why do you need to do it with a single echo statement; where's the harm in having another? I assume you're not simply adding unnecessary constraints for the fun of it... – Rob Sep 25 '08 at 11:54 That doesn't seem any better than echo hello, echo world. – paxdiablo Sep 25 '08 at 11:54 3 That would actually output "hello, echo world" :) – Joey Sep 25 '087 at 19:39.

Here you go, create a . Bat file with the following in it: @echo off REM Creating a Newline variable (the two blank lines are required! ) set NLM=^ set NL=^^^%NLM%%NLM%^%NLM%%NLM% REM Example Usage: echo There should be a newline%NL%inserted here.Echo.

Pause You should see output like the following: There should be a newline inserted here. Press any key to continue .. . You only need the code between the REM statements, obviously.

I can't quite get my head round it – Andy Morris Nov 12 '09 at 13:14 Alas, this doesn't work when passing the echoed string to another program. – Joey Mar 18 at 17:52 1 @andy methinks a +8 comment warrants a question: stackoverflow.Com/questions/6379619/… – matt wilkie Jun 16 at 23:06 1 This is a wonderful example to show that cmd. Exe and Windows batch files are totally insane!

– mivk Oct 15 at 10:54.

When echoing something to redirect to a file, multiple echo commands will not work. I think maybe the ">>" redirector is a good choice: echo hello > temp echo world >> temp.

Great! Exactly what I needed for redirecting to files. – Shahbaz Oct 25 at 20:40.

There is a standard feature echo: in cmd/bat-files to write blank line, which emulates a new line in your cmd-output: @echo off @echo line1 @echo: @echo line2 Output of cited above cmd-file: line1 line2.

1 echo, and echo. Also work – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Jun 10 at 15:50 2 In fact, any UNUSED special char should work. I always encourage the use of / because the slash is the standard char for command options.

Also, I always criticize the use of the dot that somebody in Microsoft unfortunately choose because the command: echo. Com give different results depending on the version of MS-DOS/Windows Batch command processor. – Aacini Jul 30 at 4:58.

Just like Grimtron suggests - here is a quick example to define it @echo off set newline=^& echo. Echo hello %newline%world output C:\>test. Bat hello world.

It will actually echo an additional newline after "world" – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Jun 10 at 15:52 @blue the trailing newline seems to be function of the batch file itself. If you repeat the echo hello %newline%world line there are no spaces between. – matt wilkie Jun 16 at 22:59.

Like the answer of Ken, but with the use of the delayed expansion. Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set LF=^ REM Two empty lines are necessary echo Line1! LF!

Line2 First a single linefeed character is created and assigned to the LF-variable. This works as the caret at the line end tries to escape the next character, but if this is a Linefeed it is ignored and the next character is read and escaped (even if this is also a linefeed). Then you need a third linefeed to end the current instruction, else the third line would be appended to the LF-variable.

Even batch files have line endings with CR/LF only the LF are important, as the CR's are removed in this phase of the parser. The advantage of using the delayed expansion is, that there is no special character handling at all. Echo Line1%LF%Line2 would fail, as the parser stops parsing at single linefeeds.

More explanations are at SO:Long commands split over multiple lines in Vista/DOS batch (.bat) file SO:How does the Windows Command Interpreter (CMD. EXE) parse scripts?

You can also do like this, (for %i in (a be "c d") do @echo %~i) The output will be, a be c d Note that when this is put in a batch file, '%' shall be doubled. (for %%i in (a be "c d") do @echo %%~i).

This worked for me: (echo asdf ) >myfile. Txt It writes a file like this (please, omit the text.

1 echo asdf >myfile. Txt will produce the exact same results. Echo appends a newline to the end of the string.

– BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Jun 10 at 15:51.

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