What does the @title batch script command do?

Question

I see it a few times in my batch script, however I'm not certain what it actually does. The two occurrences of it are below an @echo (which prints out the text following it to the console) and are exact duplicates of the text that is printed with @echo.

Answer 1

• @ means "don't echo this, just run it."
• title lets you set the title of the cmd.exe window.

Try title /? from the command prompt.

Answer 2

It sets the title of the current command window title bar.

If you run the following script as a batch file, you will see an example:

@title = "My Title"
pause

Answer 3

It "specifies the title for the command prompt window" (found by running title /?).

Answer 4

Not surprisingly, it sets the title of the command prompt window the batch is running in. The leading @ keeps the line from being echo'd to the prompt.