This tutorial shows how to use echo without newline. With the Windows terminal, the echo command lets you print text. By default, the echo command adds a new line character to the output. In some situations, it can be a bad thing. By default, the echo command’s output includes a new line character. For instance, if you print an environment variable, an extra line will be added to the output.
If you want to copy the output to the clipboard to use it in another command, the extra line can cause trouble. Today, we’ll look at how to use echo without newline the new line character from the output of the echo command at the command prompt. With the Windows terminal, the echo command lets you print text. By default, the echo command adds a new line character to the output. In some situations, it can be a bad thing.
How to use echo without newlin in Windows Command Prompt
If you have Windows 11/10, you can type your commands into the Command Prompt. There are times when the new line can be a problem, especially if you want to copy the output and use it outside of Command Prompt.
So, if you type “echo 1” as the command in your prompt, you’ll get 1 as the output, followed by a new line and another input line. But you need to type more commands after “echo” if you want to use the same command without adding a new line. Let’s go over it step by step:
- Press ‘Windows’ and ‘R’ key at the same time to open the ‘Run’ window.
- Type ‘cmd’ in the Open box.
- Type the following command in Command Prompt:
echo | set /p=your text or variable (in this example it’s ‘1’) - Press ‘Enter’ to execute this command.
- You should not see a new line in between.
- If you want to copy the output to the clipboard, you’ll have to use the ‘echo’ command with the ‘clip’ command.
- Use the following code: echo | set /p=your text or variable|clip
- The ‘clip’ command will copy the text or variable to the clipboard.
- Open any text tool. For example, Notepad.
- Paste the clipboard to it.
- You should see your output in a string of text in Notepad.
FAQ
Does echo print a newline?
By default, echo prints the string you give it and adds a newline at the end. We take advantage of that by running several echo statements at the same time. Let’s take a look at the example below.
How to print without newline in bash?
The echo command in bash usually adds a “n” to the output, which is an escape character that means “newline.” The “-n” option doesn’t add a “n” to the end of the output. All the numbers are now on a single line, as you can see.
What is \C in echo?
\c Remove the newline > that would normally come after the last argument in the output. Any characters in the arguments that come after “c” will not be used. The following commands show that a POSIX XSI-compliant echo utility should quit when it finds a c: echo -e “foo bar c baz” “quux”
How do you echo in different lines?
To use echo to add more than one line to a file, use the -e option and put n between each line. When you use the -e option, you tell echo to evaluate backslash characters like n for new line. If you cat the file, you’ll see that each new entry starts on a new line right after the content that’s already there.