It's programming time!/Batch/Echo

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Echo

Let's see what echo can do for you:

1. Create a new batch file like we did earlier and open it in your text editor.
2. Add the following lines to the file:

@echo Using echo without any following text will give you a status message
@echo

@echo OFF
echo "echo OFF" can also be used to disable the command prompt display.
rem @echo OFF is a good line to start your batch files with.

echo Now we no longer need to use the @ symbol in front of each command.
echo

pause

1. Save your file without any formatting (Plain text).
2. Double click your .bat file to execute the commands.

Remember: Don't edit the batch file while it's running. You can get unexpected errors that way.

• Tell me more about echo
• Do all the lines have to start with @?
• Why is there a pause?
• That's too simple, I want to learn something cooler.