Comments on: How to insert a carriage return with batch http://www.dearmisterjones.com/wordpress/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/ Here's 2 cents, don't spend it all at once Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:52:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Adam http://www.dearmisterjones.com/wordpress/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-8 Adam Fri, 02 May 2008 22:47:29 +0000 http://www.dearmisterjones.com/index.php/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-8 Why did it take me so long to find this??? I have been for an hour trying to find out how to perform a carriage return in DOS using the "echo" command. I have tried echo "Hello\nWorld" and using the -e and \n and \\n but DOS always interprets it literally. If anyone can help, please let me know. This worked to create a new line for me, thanks. Why did it take me so long to find this??? I have been for an hour trying to find out how to perform a carriage return in DOS using the “echo” command. I have tried
echo “Hello\nWorld”
and using the -e and \n and \\n but DOS always interprets it literally. If anyone can help, please let me know. This worked to create a new line for me, thanks.

]]> By: mister jones http://www.dearmisterjones.com/wordpress/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-7 mister jones Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:49:08 +0000 http://www.dearmisterjones.com/index.php/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-7 Matias: You're welcome! Andrew: Excellent information! I had never thought before of why it worked. Nice to gain a little revelation every once in a while and realize that something like that actually has some reasoning behind it :) Great article from Raymond Chen. Thanks for sharing! From the comments on Raymond's post, it looks like people were trying to suggest a similar method for doing the same thing with echo on a *nix system. I don't know if this is the case on all *nix'es, but at least on Slackware and Debian distributions of Linux, I'm able to accomplish a blank line/carriage return by simply using: echo >> somefile (echo followed by nothing). Matias: You’re welcome!

Andrew: Excellent information! I had never thought before of why it worked. Nice to gain a little revelation every once in a while and realize that something like that actually has some reasoning behind it :) Great article from Raymond Chen. Thanks for sharing!

From the comments on Raymond’s post, it looks like people were trying to suggest a similar method for doing the same thing with echo on a *nix system. I don’t know if this is the case on all *nix’es, but at least on Slackware and Debian distributions of Linux, I’m able to accomplish a blank line/carriage return by simply using: echo >> somefile (echo followed by nothing).

]]> By: Andrew from Vancouver http://www.dearmisterjones.com/wordpress/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-6 Andrew from Vancouver Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:11:33 +0000 http://www.dearmisterjones.com/index.php/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-6 Ahhh, but why does it work? I've used it for years and years and regarded it as a tweak that just worked. But there is a reason! By design, cmd.exe will interpret what you "echo". So, to get it to just darn well echo what you're telling it to, but still be able to pass parameters, you need a way to tell it which is which. All credit goes to Raymond Chen at his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/03/8352719.aspx Ahhh, but why does it work? I’ve used it for years and years and regarded it as a tweak that just worked.

But there is a reason! By design, cmd.exe will interpret what you “echo”. So, to get it to just darn well echo what you’re telling it to, but still be able to pass parameters, you need a way to tell it which is which.

All credit goes to Raymond Chen at his blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/03/8352719.aspx

]]> By: Matias http://www.dearmisterjones.com/wordpress/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-5 Matias Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:15:48 +0000 http://www.dearmisterjones.com/index.php/2008/01/25/how-to-insert-a-carriage-return-with-batch/#comment-5 Thank you very much, I needed this :) Thank you very much, I needed this :)

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