ECHO: The Batch Printing Tool

The ECHO command is used for what the Print command is in other
programming languages: To Display something on the screen. It can be
used to tell the user what the bath file is currently doing. It is true
that Batch programs display all commands it is executing but sometimes
they are not enough and it is better to also insert ECHO commands
which give a better description of what is presently being done. Say for
example the following batch program which is full of the ECHO
command deletes all files in the c:\windows\temp directory:
ECHO This Batch File deletes all unwanted Temporary files from your
system ECHO Now we go to the Windows\temp directory.
cd windows\temp
ECHO Deleting unwanted temporary files....
del *.tmp
ECHO Your System is Now Clean
Now let's see what happens when we execute the above snippet of batch
code.
C:\WINDOWS>batch_file_name
C:\WINDOWS>ECHO This Batch File deletes all unwanted Temporary
files from your
system
C:\WINDOWS>ECHO Now we go to the Windows\temp directory.
Now we go to the Windows\temp directory.
C:\WINDOWS>cd windows\temp
Invalid directory
C:\WINDOWS>ECHO Deleting unwanted temporary files
Deleting unwanted temporary files...
C:\WINDOWS>del *.tmp
C:\WINDOWS>ECHO Your System is Now Clean
Your System is Now Clean
The above is a big mess! The problem is that DOS is displaying the
executed command and also the statement within the ECHO command.
To prevent DOS from displaying the command being executed, simply
precede the batch file with the
following command at the beginning of the file: