How do I make a log of all ECHO commands in a BATCH file?

Question

I am trying to use a BATCH file as a choose your own adventure story in which the user can create a character and be called by name and such by the characters in the story.

Answer 1

You cannot do that in batch script literally, but if you define functions, you can output data within the function block that also writes to a log file before the function returns, like so:

@ECHO off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION ENABLEEXTENSIONS
echo. 2>outfile.log

CALL :functionPerson "Jon Doe" jump
GOTO :END
:functionPerson fullname action
  ECHO fullname is ^"%~1^"
  ECHO action is %2
  ECHO %1 performs action %2>> outfile.log
EXIT /B 0
:END
pause