Batch file print text to screen

Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 4 months ago. Active 28 days ago. Viewed 15k times. ECHO is off. Raktim Biswas 3, 5 5 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Beaux Beaux 21 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges. You probably haven't set those variables. I also recommend starting a variable with a letter, because starting a variable with numbers won't always work. You seem to be confusing environment variables with command-line argument parameters.

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Bill Harding Bill Harding 19 1 1 bronze badge. The simplest way using just DOS is echo. This method even works in a Windows 7 x64 Command window. Stanley Zheng 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Martin Whittaker Martin Whittaker 11 2 2 bronze badges. FYI, Stackoverflow supports markdown syntax. Hayz Hayz 4 4 bronze badges.

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Related Stdin is file 0, stdout is file 1, and stderr is file 2. A very common task in batch files is sending the output of a program to a log file. For example, you can write a listing of the current directory to a text file:.

You can redirect stderr by using the file number 2 in front of the operator:.