Append Echo on earlier Echo

Question

I want to be able to concat a new ECHO message to a prior ECHO message, something like this:

Command:

ECHO PROCESSING...
REM some process here
ECHO DONE

Result:

PROCESSING...
DONE

What I want as a result is this

PROCESSING...DONE

I will first echo the "PROCESSING..." message, and then after my process is done, I would like to be able to append the "DONE" message at the end.

Possible duplicate of [Windows batch: echo without new line](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7105433/windows-batch-echo-without-new-line) — GlennFromIowa, Jul 10 '18 at 23:04

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '14 at 04:32

3

This is an undocumented use of the set /p command:

@echo off
set /p =PROCESSING... <nul
REM some process here
ECHO DONE
pause

answered May 17 '14 at 04:32

foxidrive

This will only work if your processes between the `set` command and the `echo` command do not output anything. This is still pretty clever – Alex May 17 '14 at 04:38

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