How can you echo a newline in batch files?

Question

How can you you insert a newline from your batch file output?

I want to do something like:

> echo hello\nworld

Which would output:

hello
world

Answer 1

You can use @echo ( @echo + [space] + [insecable space] )

Note: The insecable space can be obtained with Alt+0160

Hope it helps :)

[edit] Hmm you're right, I needed it in a Makefile, it works perfectly in there. I guess my answer is not adapted for batch files... My bad.

Answer 2

There is a standard feature echo: in cmd/bat-files to write blank line, which emulates a new line in your cmd-output:

@echo off
@echo line1
@echo:
@echo line2

Output of cited above cmd-file:

line1

line2

Answer 3

Just like Grimtron suggests - here is a quick example to define it:

@echo off
set newline=^& echo.
echo hello %newline%world

Output

C:\>test.bat
hello
world

Answer 4

You can also do like this,

(for %i in (a b "c d") do @echo %~i)

The output will be,

a
b
c d

Note that when this is put in a batch file, '%' shall be doubled.

(for %%i in (a b "c d") do @echo %%~i)

Answer 5

If you need to put results to a file, you can use

(echo a & echo. & echo b) > file_containing_multiple_lines.txt

Answer 6

I can't make it any simpler than:

echo echo hello^&echo world^&pause>silly.bat                       
call silly.bat