Echo command in batch

[Royalaid]

Hey guys was just wondering if there is a way to make a batch file echo something exactly as I type it, for example

echo set name=c:/%num%.bat >> %name% 

I get the output of

set name=c:/1.bat

I want it to put that exact text (set name=c:/%num%.bat) in the file not what %num% is equal to, any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance.

[neXussT]

% and > are special characters under DOS. Escape them with a carot (^).

neXussT

[Royalaid]

OK, i got it to work the way i want to, kinda.... now whenever it echo's a line of text it will add the " + 1"... anyone know why this is happening?

[Tarbizkit]

you must be doing something wrong. What neXusst said is correct the ^ character will allow you to use special characters.

open a command prompt and type the following...

echo set name=c:/^%num^%.bat ^>^> ^%name^%

your outout should be...

set name=c:/%num%.bat >> %name%

[still learning]

if you dont want it to echo i know you put @echo off at the beginning of your batch file, so im guessing you just leave @echo off out of the batch file or put @echo on and that will do it ... not positive though

[dimitar]

Make sure that you have @echo on at the top of the script. Then you need to put an extra % in front of each % and a ^ (caret) in front of each >. These are called "escape characters".

So... your script will look like this:

@echo on

echo set name=c:/%%num%%.bat ^>^> %%name%%

pause

[neXussT]

The @ character turns off echoing of the command itself, so you only see the output of the command. You can affect the entire batch file by putting a "@echo off" at the beginning of the file.

An example of a command in a batch file without disabling echoing:

echo Hello World!

The result:

echo Hello World!

Hello World!

An example of turning off echoing for an entire batch file:

@echo off

echo Hello World!

The result:

Hello World!

If you want to disable echoing for only one command, use this:

@echo Hello World!

---

Using "@echo off" is very standard for batch files, and you will almost never see one without it.

neXussT

[Royalaid]

Adding the extra percent helped fix the echo problem, and now I have the file actually working, all I need to do is make it map the C drive is there anyway that I can get the dir command to show me just files and would get the out from that be as simple as adding >> filelist.txt to the end?

[neXussT]

Type "DIR /?" for information on the DIR commands paramaters

If you want a list of files in the current directory without listing the directory, type this:

DIR /a-d

If you want to get rid of the file information, type this:

DIR /b/a-d

If you want a list of all the files in the current directory and subdirectories without listing the directories, type this:

DIR /s/b/a-d

You can learn a lot by typing the following commands:

SET /?

DIR /?

FOR /?

HELP

neXussT

[Royalaid]

Thanks neXussT for all your help and sorry about my inability to use intelligent grammar while typing...