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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: ECHOing > < | & in command.com
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.111851.328@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 3 Dec 90 09:18:51 GMT
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henkf@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Henk Fictorie) writes:
> In a bat file I would like to ECHO the special characters: < > | &.

rmich@Lise.Unit.NO (Rolf Michelsen) replies:
> I haven't tested this, but the standard way of passing special characters as
> parameters is to enclose the entire parameter in double quotes. You could
> try something like this:  ECHO "this is a <silly> test"

This works, but you'll see the double quotes.  I didn't find any good way to
display these characters - special to command.com - using DOS.

Many replacements of DOS' echo provide ways to display them, or to skip the
final CR-LF.  BTW: such a program (quite trivial to, really) is in queue for
posting in c.b.i.p.  It's called `write', and uses the `prompt' syntax for
special characters ($e=ESC, $l='<', $g='>', etc.).