How can I echo a newline in a batch file

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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

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echo  Enough said   If you need it in a single line  use the  amp   For example   echo Line 1  amp  echo   amp  echo line 3   would output as   Line 1  line 3   Now  say you want something a bit fancier       set n   amp echo  echo hello  n  world   Outputs  hello world   Then just throw in a  n  whenever you want a new line in an echo statement   This is more close to your  n used in various languages   Breakdown  set n  sets the variable n equal to     Nulls out the next symbol to follow    amp  Means to do another command on the same line   We don t care about errorlevel its an echo statement for crying out loud   so no  amp  amp  is needed   echo  Continues the echo statement   All of this works because you can actually create variables that are code  and use them inside of other commands   It is sort of like a ghetto function  since batch is not exactly the most advanced of shell scripting languages   This only works because batch s poor usage of variables  not designating between ints  chars  floats  strings  etc naturally   If you are crafty  you could get this to work with other things   For example  using it to echo a tab  set t   amp echo        there are spaces up to the double colon

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Use   echo hello echo  echo world

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To start a new line in batch  all you have to do is add  echo    like so   echo Hi  echo  echo Hello

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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

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echo hello  amp  echo world  This means you could define  amp  echo  as a constant for a newline  n

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If anybody comes here because they are looking to echo a blank line from a MINGW make makefile  I used   cmd  c echo   simply using echo  causes the dreaded process begin  CreateProcess NULL  echo        failed  error message   I hope this helps at least one other person out there

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If you need to put results to a file  you can use    echo a  amp  echo   amp  echo b   gt  file containing multiple lines txt

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Just like Grimtron suggests - here is a quick example to define it    echo off set newline   amp  echo  echo hello  newline world   Output  C   gt test bat hello world

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This worked for me  no delayed expansion necessary    echo off   echo   lt html  gt   echo   lt body  gt  echo Hello echo   lt  body  gt  echo   lt  html  gt    pause   It writes output like this    lt html gt   lt body gt  Hello  lt  body gt   lt  html gt  Press any key to continue

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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

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If one needs to use famous  n in string literals that can be passed to a variable  may write a code like in the Hello bat script below    echo off set input  1 if defined input       set answer Hi  nWhy did you call me a  input     else       set answer Hi  nHow are you  nWe are friends  you know  nYou can call me by name     setlocal enableDelayedExpansion set newline     rem Two empty lines above are essential echo  answer  n  newline     This way multiline output may by prepared in one place  even in other scritpt or external file  and printed in another   The line break is held in newline variable  Its value must be substituted after the echo line is expanded so I use setlocal enableDelayedExpansion to enable exclamation signs which expand variables on execution  And the execution substitutes  n with newline contents  look for syntax at help set   We could of course use  newline  while setting the answer but  n is more convenient  It may be passed from outside  try Hello R2 nD2   where nobody knows the name of variable holding the line break  Yes  Hello C3 newline P0 works the same way    Above example may be refined to a subroutine or standalone batch  used like call mlecho Hi nI m your comuter    mlecho setlocal enableDelayedExpansion set text    set nl     echo  text  n  nl   goto eof   Please note  that additional backslash won t prevent the script from parsing  n substring

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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

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This solution works Tested    type nul   more  e  p   This converts isolated line feeds to carriage return line feed combination

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You can use  echo    echo    space     insecable space     Note  The insecable space can be obtained with Alt 0160  Hope it helps      edit  Hmm you re right  I needed it in a Makefile  it works perfectly in there  I guess my answer is not adapted for batch files    My bad

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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

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why not use substring replace space to echo   set  quot  line hello world quot  echo   line    amp echo     Results   hello world   Or  replace  n to echo   set  quot  line hello nworld quot  echo   line  n  amp echo

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Ken and Jeb solutions works well   But the new lines are generated with only an LF character and I need CRLF characters  Windows version    To this  at the end of the script  I have converted LF to CRLF   Example   TYPE file txt   FIND     V  gt  file win txt del file txt rename file win txt file txt

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Like the answer of Ken  but with the use of the delayed expansion     setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  set  n     Do not remove this line      echo Line1  n Line2 echo Works also with quotes    n line2    First a single linefeed character is created and assigned to the  n-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   Edit  Avoid echo     This doesn t answer the question  as the question was about single echo that can output multiple lines   But despite the other answers who suggests the use of echo  to create a new line  it should be noted that echo  is the worst  as it s very slow and it can completly fail  as cmd exe searches for a file named ECHO and try to start it     For printing just an empty line  you could use one of   echo  echo  echo  echo  echo  echo    But the use of echo   echo  or echo  should be avoided  as they can be really slow  depending of the location where the script will be executed  like a network drive

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You can also do like this    for  i in  a b  c d   do  echo   i    The output will be   a b c d   Note that when this is put in a batch file      shall be doubled    for   i in  a b  c d   do  echo    i

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