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From: saj@yipeia.Sun.COM (Scott A. Jordahl)
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Subject: Re: How do I ECHO a blank line from batch file?
Keywords: batch file ECHO
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Date: 29 Mar 90 00:22:25 GMT
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In article <22610@watdragon.waterloo.edu> sbnicol@rose.waterloo.edu (Scott Nicol) writes:
>In article <4522@mace.cc.purdue.edu> du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein) writes:
>>The other day while working on a little batch file I wanted to 
>>put a blank line between two small paragraphs of text that get
>>ECHOed to the screen, and was unable to do so. If you use ECHO
>>by itself, it says 'ECHO is off'. I tried putting  some spaces
>>after it, but it didn't help. There should be simple answer to
>>this, but I seem to be missing it. Any advice would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>
>   Try echoing a backspace.  Seriously, it worked for me.  The line
>would look something like:
>
>	echo \8
>
>where \8 is the backspace character.  You should be able to generate it
>by holding down the alt key, hitting 8 on your numeric keypad, and
>then releasing the alt key.  If your editor doesn't like this, you could
>always enter it as "echo  " and use debug to change the second space
>to a backspace.
>
>- Scott

No. No. No. No.  The solution is very simple:  

			echo"  
			
(Notice: double quote, no space)

I use this all the time in my .bat files.

-- Scott

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