In this post, Learn how to add a new line to the text displayed with the echo command in a batch file.

For example, Want to print the text in multiple lines as given below

line1
line1

There are multiple ways to break lines in echo text.

You can use echo: to insert the new blank line in the command line output.

multiplelines.bat

@echo off
echo one
echo:
echo two

On running multiplelines.bat in the command line, Output is shown as

one

two

Similarly, replace the above with a single syntax using the & operator.

@echo off & echo one & echo:& echo two

Other alternatives to echo: are below

echo(
echo+
echo,
echo;
echo+

How to echo a multi-line and write to a text file?

using the > symbol outputs to the filename

@echo off & echo one & echo:& echo two > multlines.txt