Windows batch echo without new line

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What is the Windows batch equivalent of the Linux shell command echo -n which suppresses the newline at the end of the output   The idea is to write on the same line inside a loop

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The simple SET  P method has limitations that vary slightly between Windows versions    Leading quotes may be stripped Leading white space  may be stripped Leading   causes a syntax error    See http   www dostips com forum viewtopic php f 3 amp t 4209 for more information   jeb posted a clever solution that solves most of the problems at Output text without linefeed  even with leading space or   I ve refined the method so that it can safely print absolutely any valid batch string without the new line  on any version of Windows from XP onward  Note that the  writeInitialize method contains a string literal that may not post well to the site  A remark is included that describes what the character sequence should be   The  write and  writeVar methods are optimized such that only strings containing troublesome leading characters are written using my modified version of jeb s COPY method  Non-troublesome strings are written using the simpler and faster SET  P method    echo off setlocal disableDelayedExpansion call  writeInitialize call  write   hello  call  write   world   write sub OK   echo  setlocal enableDelayedExpansion set lf     set  str  hello lf world     write sub hello lf world  echo  echo str  str  echo  call  write  str   call  writeVar str echo  exit  b   write  Str       Write the literal string Str to stdout without a terminating    carriage return or line feed  Enclosing quotes are stripped        This routine works by calling  writeVar    setlocal disableDelayedExpansion set  str   1  call  writeVar str exit  b    writeVar  StrVar       Writes the value of variable StrVar to stdout without a terminating    carriage return or line feed        The routine relies on variables defined by  writeInitialize  If the    variables are not yet defined  then it calls  writeInitialize to    temporarily define them  Performance can be improved by explicitly    calling  writeInitialize once before the first call to  writeVar    if not defined   1 exit  b setlocal enableDelayedExpansion if not defined  write sub call  writeInitialize set  write special 1 if     1  0 1   equ      set   write special   for  f delims    eol     A in      1  0 1    do     if    A  neq     if    write problemChars   A    equ    write problemChars   set   write special     if not defined  write special      lt nul set  p      1     exit  b    gt    write temp  1 txt   echo  str   write sub   copy    write temp  1 txt   a    write temp  2 txt   b  gt nul type    write temp  2 txt  del    write temp  1 txt     write temp  2 txt  set  str2  str    write sub    write sub    if   str2   neq   str    lt nul set  p    str2   exit  b    writeInitialize       Defines 3 variables needed by the  write and  writeVar routines          write temp - specifies a base path for temporary files          write sub  - contains the SUB character  also known as  lt CTRL-Z gt  or 0x1A          write problemChars - list of characters that cause problems for SET  P          lt carriageReturn gt   lt formFeed gt   lt space gt   lt tab gt   lt 0xFF gt   lt equal gt   lt quote gt          Note that  lt lineFeed gt  and  lt equal gt  also causes problems  but are handled elsewhere    set   write temp  temp  writeTemp random   copy nul    write temp  txt   a  gt nul for  f  usebackq    A in     write temp  txt   do set   write sub   A  del    write temp  txt  for  f   A in   copy  z    f0  nul   do for  f   B in   cls   do     set   write problemChars   A  B          REM the characters after   B above should be  lt space gt   lt tab gt   lt 0xFF gt    exit  b

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I believe there s no such option  Alternatively you can try this  set text Hello set text  text  world echo  text

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You can suppress the new line by using the set  p command  The set  p command does not recognize a space  for that you can use a dot and a backspace character to make it recognize it  You can also use a variable as a memory and store what you want to print in it  so that you can print the variable instead of the sentence  For example    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for  f   a in    prompt  H  amp  for   b in  1  do rem    do  set  bs   a   cls set  var Hello World      set  x 0    loop set  display  var   x  1    lt nul set  p  print   bs  display   ping -n 1 localhost  gt nul set  a  x  x    1  if   var   x  1         goto end goto loop   end echo  pause exit   In this way you can print anything without a new line  I have made the program to print the characters one by one  but you can use words too instead of characters by changing the loop   In the above example I used  enabledelayedexpansion  so the set  p command does not recognize     character and prints a dot instead of that  I hope that you don t have the use of the exclamation mark

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As an addendum to  xmechanix s answer  I noticed through writing the contents to a file   echo   set  p dummyName Hello World  gt  somefile txt   That this will add an extra space at the end of the printed string  which can be inconvenient  specially since we re trying to avoid adding a new line  another whitespace character  to the end of the string   Fortunately  quoting the string to be printed  i e  using   echo   set  p dummyName  Hello World   gt  somefile txt   Will print the string without any newline or space character at the end

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A solution for the stripped white space in SET  P   the trick is that backspace char which you can summon in the text editor EDIT for DOS  To create it in EDIT press ctrlP ctrlH  I would paste it here but this webpage can t display it  It s visible on Notepad though  it s werid  like a small black rectangle with a white circle in the center   So you write this    lt nul set  p  9    Hello everyone   The dot can be any char  it s only there to tell SET  P that the text starts there  before the spaces  and not at the  Hello   The  9  is a representation of the backspace char that I can t display here  You have to put it instead of the 9  and it will delete the       after which you ll get this       Hello Everyone   instead of   Hello Everyone   I hope it helps

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Maybe this is what your looking for  it s a old school script     P  set nl   amp  echo   echo  nl The nl new nl line nl is nl not nl apparent nl throughout nl text nl  echo only in prompt  pause   or maybe your trying to replace a current line instead of writing to a new line  you can experiment with this by removing the   bs   after the     sign and also by spacing out the other   bs   after the  Example message    for  f   a in    prompt  H amp for   b in  1  do rem    do set  bs   a   lt nul set  p   bs          Example message          bs  pause   I find this really interesting because it uses a variable for a purpose other than what it is intended to do  as you can see the   bs   represents a backspace  The second   bs   uses the backspace to add spaces after the  Example message  to separate the  Pause command s output  without actually adding a visible character after the  Example message   However  this is also possible with a regular percentage sign

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Here is another method  it uses Powershell Write-Host which has a -NoNewLine parameter  combine that with start  b and it offers the same functionality from batch   NoNewLines cmd   ECHO OFF start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 1 -   Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 2 -   Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 3 -    PAUSE   Output  Result 1 - Result 2 - Result 3 - Press any key to continue         This one below is slightly different  doesn t work exactly like the OP wants  but is interesting because each result overwrites the previous result emulating a counter    ECHO OFF start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 1 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 2 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 3 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 4 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 5 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 6 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 7 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 8 -    start  b  wait powershell exe -command  Write-Host -NoNewLine  Result 9 -    PAUSE

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DIY cw exe  console write  utility  If you don t find it out-of-the-box  off-the-shelf  you can DIY  With this cw utility you can use every kind of characters  At least  I d like to think so  Please stress-test it and let me know   Tools  All you need is  NET installed  which is very common nowadays   Materials  Some characters typed copy-pasted   Steps   Create  bat file with the following content          gt nul 2 gt  amp 1   echo off setlocal  set exe cw for  f  tokens   delims     v in   dir  b  s  a -d   o -n   SystemRoot  Microsoft NET Framework  csc exe    do set  csc   v     csc   -nologo -out   exe  exe     f0   endlocal exit  b  errorlevel       using System   namespace cw       class Program           static void Main                 var exe   Environment GetCommandLineArgs   0               var rawCmd   Environment CommandLine              var line   rawCmd Remove rawCmd IndexOf exe  exe Length  TrimStart                   line   line Length  lt  2     r    line Substring 2                Console Write line                        Run it  Now you have a nice 4KB utility so you can delete the  bat    Alternatively  you can insert this code as a subroutine in any batch  send the resulting  exe to  temp   use it in your batch and delete it when you re done   How to use  If you want write something without new line  cw Whatever you want  even with     but remember to escape           amp   etc  unless double-quoted  like in       amp     If you want a carriage return  going to the beginning of the line   run just cw  So try this from command line   for  l  a in  1 1 1000  do   cw    amp cw amp cw   amp cw amp cw - amp cw amp cw   amp cw

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You can remove the newline using  tr  from gnuwin32  coreutils package    echo off set L First line echo  L    tr -d   r n  echo Second line pause   By the way  if you are doing lots of scripting  gnuwin32 is a goldmine

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Inspired by the answers to this question  I made a simple counter batch script that keeps printing the progress value  0-100   on the same line  overwritting the previous one   Maybe this will also be valuable to others looking for a similar solution   Remark  The   are non-printable characters  these should be entered using  Alt   Numpad 0   Numpad 8  key combination  which is the backspace character    ECHO OFF  FOR  L   A in  0  10  100  DO            ECHO SET  P        A            CALL Wait 1    GOTO EOF   Wait SET  A  delay   1 1  CALL PING 127 0 0 1 -n  delay   gt  NUL GOTO EOF

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Sample 1  This works and produces Exit code   0   That is Good   Note the       directly after echo      C  Users phife dog gitrepos 1 repo abc scripts      echo   set  p JUNK VAR This is a message displayed like Linux echo -n would display it      amp  echo  ERRORLEVEL    This is a message displayed like Linux echo -n would display it     0  Sample 2  This works but produces Exit code   1   That is Bad   Please note the lack of      after echo  That appears to be the difference      C  Users phife dog gitrepos 1 repo abc scripts      echo   set  p JUNK VAR This is a message displayed like Linux echo -n would display it      amp  echo  ERRORLEVEL    This is a message displayed like Linux echo -n would display it     1

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Using  echo   set  p  or  lt NUL set  p  will both work to suppress the newline   However  this can be very dangerous when writing more advanced scripts when checking the ERRORLEVEL becomes important as setting set  p  without specifying a variable name will set the ERRORLEVEL to 1   A better approach would be to just use a dummy variable name like so   echo   set  p dummyName Hello World   This will produce exactly what you want without any sneaky stuff going on in the background as I had to find out the hard way  but this only works with the piped version   lt NUL set  p dummyName Hello will still raise the ERRORLEVEL to 1

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With jscript   if   X     Y   end         cscript   E JScript   nologo  quot   nx0 quot          exit  b  errorlevel    if WScript Arguments Count   gt 0  WScript StdOut Write WScript Arguments Item 0     if it is called write bat you can test it like  call write bat string  amp  echo  Another String   If you want to use powershell but with cmd defined variables you can use  set str  My StrinG  powershell  quot Write-Host -NoNewline  quot  quot  str  quot  quot  quot  quot    amp  echo  Another STRING

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I made a function out of   arnep  s idea       echo set  p  Hello World     here it is    SL  sameline  echo set  p  1 exit  b   Use it with call  SL  Hello There   I know this is nothing special but it took me so long to think of it I figured I d post it here

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From here    lt nul set  p  Testing testing   and also to echo beginning with spaces use  echo Message goes here

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Late answer here  but for anyone who needs to write special characters to a single line who find dbenham s answer to be about 80 lines too long and whose scripts may break  perhaps due to user-input  under the limitations of simply using set  p  it s probably easiest to just to pair your  bat or  cmd with a compiled C   or C-language executable and then just cout or printf the characters  This will also allow you to easily write multiple times to one line if you re showing a sort of progress bar or something using characters  as OP apparently was

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Use EchoX EXE from the terrific  quot Shell Scripting Toolkit quot  by Bill Stewart How to suppress the linefeed in a Windows Cmd script   Echo Off Rem Print three Echos in one line of output EchoX -n  quot Part 1 -  quot  EchoX -n  quot Part 2 -  quot  EchoX     quot Part 3 quot  Rem  gives  Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3  empty line  d  Prompt gt   The help for this usage is  Usage  echox  -n  message   -n       Do not skip to the next line    message  The text to be displayed   The utility is smaller than 48K  and should live in your Path  More things it can do - print text without moving to the next line- print text justified to the left  center  or right  within a certain width- print text with Tabs  Linefeeds  and Returns- print text in foreground and background colors The Toolkit includes twelve more great scripting tricks  The download page also hosts three other useful tool packages

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Using set and the  p parameter you can echo without newline   C   gt  echo Hello World Hello World  C   gt  echo set  p  Hello World  Hello World C   gt    Source

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Echo with preceding space and without newline As stated by Pedro earlier  echo without new line and with preceding space works  provided  quot 9 quot  is a true  BackSpace     lt nul set  p  9    Hello everyone  I had some issues getting it to work in Windows 10 with the new console but managed the following way  In CMD type  echo    gt bs txt  I got  quot   quot  by pressing  Alt     8   the actual symbol may vary depending upon codepage   Then it s easy to copy the result from  quot bs txt quot  using Notepad exe to where it s needed   echo off  lt nul set  p  quot  s       Hello everyone quot  echo  here

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