How can you echo a newline in batch files?

Question

How can you you insert a newline from your batch file output.

I want to do something like:

> echo hello\nworld

Which would output:

hello
world

Answer 1

use

echo hello
echo.
echo world

Answer 2

echo hello && echo.world

This means you could define "&& echo." as a constant for a newline.

Answer 3

Either break it into multiple statements, or use printf:

kburton@indigo64:~$ echo "foo"; echo; echo "bar"
foo

bar
kburton@indigo64:~$

With printf:

kburton@indigo64:~$ printf "this\nthat\n"
this
that
kburton@indigo64:~$

Answer 4

I don't think MS-Dos supports new-line characters. If you want output on 2 lines use 2 echos.

echo hello echo world

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

Hi All,

I have a file1.txt that has the content as A and file2.txt that has the content as B . . . . fileXX.txt that the content Z

Could some tell me how to copy contents from all the above files(random number) to another file say file_final.txt with the contents from each file separated by a new line. i.e. A B C D . . . Z

Answer 8

hey thanks for the reply. This will work if i have a few files. Let's say i have a 100 of them. Any sort of "for" logic.. that reads contents from 1 file and at the end of each file's contents, "add" a new line and THEN put contents of the second file and so on and so forth?

Answer 9

@Kyle Burton: "Either break it into multiple statements, or use printf:"

The OP asked a question relating to MS-DOS Batch (look at the tags!) and you talked about Linux shell commands. What a dimwit!!!

Answer 10

there is another method besides "echo." :

echo new-line-char

the newline character is input by alt+255(type 2,5,5 while alt key is pressed. !type the num using the keypad to the right of the keyboard!)

refers http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000319.htm

Answer 11

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

Answer 12

This worked for me:

(echo asdf
) >myfile.txt

It writes a file like this (please, omit the text "<--new line here!!"):

    asdf
<--new line here!!

Answer 13

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

Answer 14

echo. does not work for me on Windows XP SP1

Answer 15

Hi All,

I need echo without newline char included.

Actually I am writting a text in to a text file using echo.

echo mydata > myfile.txt

When I open the file in the text editor...It is showing a new line (Second line) like...

mydata

(blank Line with no values.)

It is obvious that the file ends with a newline. I have to avoid that. I tried DOS2Unix tool, but no luck.

Simply, I want to remove the newline at the end of my data file using Batch commands.

Please help!