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- From: tim@tim.src.utah.edu (Tim Ma)
- Subject: Re: Echo command in batch files
- Message-ID: <tim.12.722026318@tim.src.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah
- References: <1992Nov14.190918.9554@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Nov16.204439.17539@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:51:58 GMT
-
- Hi,
-
- To "suppress" the CR/LF in the DOS echo command, try:
-
- echo hello>temp world >> temp
-
- Output should be:
- hello world
-
- Seems to work with MSDOS 5.0.
-
- Tim Ma
- Associate Programmer
- University of Utah
- Email: tim@src.cppa.utah.edu
-
- Original Message below:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- In article <1992Nov16.204439.17539@oracle.us.oracle.com> skanga@us.oracle.com (Shiraz Kanga) writes:
- >From: skanga@us.oracle.com (Shiraz Kanga)
- >Subject: Re: Echo command in batch files
- >Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:44:39 GMT
- >
- >In article <1992Nov14.190918.9554@oracle.us.oracle.com> skanga@us.oracle.com (Shiraz Kanga) writes:
- >>Hi folks
- >>
- >>Does anyone know how to prevent echo from issuing a CR/LF at the end of a line.
- >>
- >>Eg : If I create the following file called test.bat
- >>
- >>echo hello > temp
- >>echo world >> temp
- >>
- >>The result in temp is:
- >>hello
- >>world
- >>
- >>I need the result to be:
- >>hello world
- >>
- >>And yes I know echo hello world will work but what I'm trying to do is
- >>concatenate two strings which are output by two different programs and
- >>get both onto one line.
- >>
- >>Please respond by mail and I'll summarize to the net if there's interest.
- >>
- >>thanks
- >>
- >>shiraz
- >>skanga@oracle.com
- >>--
- >>Shiraz Kanga (skanga@oracle.com) Tel: (415)506-5412 Fax: (415)506-7822
- >>Analyst -- Desktop Tools Group -- Worldwide Technical Support -- 3OP11
- >>Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Pkwy, MS 659311, Redwood Shores CA 94065
- >>"I work for Oracle - I speak and type (over here at least) for myself"
- >
- >Well folks, as promised heres my summary (since there was little interest)
- >
- >Some people suggested using external echo commands (xecho, etc) which are
- >available for anonymous ftp from various sites. This is not useful for me
- >since I am not using echo only.
- >
- >Another person suggested trying an embedded backspace which might erase the
- >CR/LF characters in the file. I did try this before posting and could not get
- >it to work.
- >
- >The most useful suggestion was to concatenate the strings in the dos environment
- >and then output the variable to a text file. I will try this (albeit clumsy)
- >method as soon as I have the time.
- >
- >Thanks for the replies
- >
- >Shiraz
- >--
- >Shiraz Kanga (skanga@oracle.com) Tel: (415)506-5412 Fax: (415)506-7822
- >Analyst -- Desktop Tools Group -- Worldwide Technical Support -- 3OP11
- >Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Pkwy, MS 659311, Redwood Shores CA 94065
- >"I work for Oracle - I speak and type (over here at least) for myself"
-