Windows batch: echo without new line

Question

What is the Windows batch equivalent of the Linux shell command echo -n which suppresses the newline at the end of the output?

The idea is to write on t

Answer 1

DIY cw.exe (console write) utility

If you don't find it out-of-the-box, off-the-shelf, you can DIY. With this cw utility you can use every kind of characters. At least, I'd like to think so. Please stress-test it and let me know.

Tools

All you need is .NET installed, which is very common nowadays.

Materials

Some characters typed/copy-pasted.

Steps

1. Create .bat file with the following content.

/* >nul 2>&1

@echo off
setlocal

set exe=cw
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%v in ('dir /b /s /a:-d  /o:-n "%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\*csc.exe"') do set "csc=%%v"

"%csc%" -nologo -out:"%exe%.exe" "%~f0"

endlocal
exit /b %errorlevel%

*/

using System;

namespace cw {
    class Program {
        static void Main() {
            var exe = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()[0];
            var rawCmd = Environment.CommandLine;
            var line = rawCmd.Remove(rawCmd.IndexOf(exe),exe.Length).TrimStart('"');
            line = line.Length < 2 ? "\r" : line.Substring(2) ;
            Console.Write(line);
        }
    }
}

2. Run it.

3. Now you have a nice 4KB utility so you can delete the .bat.

Alternatively, you can insert this code as a subroutine in any batch, send the resulting .exe to %temp%, use it in your batch and delete it when you're done.

How to use

If you want write something without new line:
cw Whatever you want, even with "", but remember to escape ^|, ^^, ^&, etc. unless double-quoted, like in "| ^ &".

If you want a carriage return (going to the beginning of the line), run just
cw

So try this from command line:

for /l %a in (1,1,1000) do @(cw ^|&cw&cw /&cw&cw -&cw&cw \&cw)