How to change the default echo behavior with the "echo on|off" command?

By default, when a command is executed in a batch file, the command will be echoed on the screen before the execution.

But this behavior can be changed by running the "echo" command.

1. "echo on" - Change the setting to echo all commands.

2. "echo off" - Change the setting to stop echo all commands.

So if you want to stop echoing all commands in the batch file, you can start the batch file with "@echo off". The "@" modifier stops echoing the "echo" command itself.

If later in the batch, you want to resume echoing commands, just insert the "echo on" command.

Here is batch file called, Echo-Off-and-On.bat, which uses the "echo" command to control the echo behavior:

@echo off
echo Running command privately for 10 seconds, don't move...
ping -n 10 localhost > nul 2> nul

echo Running the same command publicly now...
echo on
ping -n 10 localhost

if you run the above batch file, you get:

C:\fyicenter>Echo-Off-and-On.bat

Running command privately for 1 minute, don't move...

Running the same command publicly now...

C:\fyicenter>ping -n 10 localhost

Pinging localhost [::1] with 32 bytes of data

Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms

Ping statistics for ::1:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

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⇐ "@" - Stop Echoing the Command

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