Perhaps I'm just boneheaded and not seeing the obvious, but can someone please tell me how I'd get my batch to append " done! ", or similar, after an operation?

I know I can do this with clever use of the ECHO command, as below, but I'm wondering if there's an easier way because using the ECHO method gets tedious when several commands are desired on screen.

A simple example of what I'm using now:

Code: [Select]@ECHO OFF

CLS
ECHO Running command 1...
Put command 1 here

CLS
ECHO Running command 1... done!

CLS
ECHO Running command 1... done!
ECHO Running command 2...
Put command 2 here

CLS
ECHO Running command 1... done!
ECHO Running command 2... done!
ECHO Running command 3...
Put command 3 here

CLS
ECHO Running command 1... done!
ECHO Running command 2... done!
ECHO Running command 3... done!

ECHO All done, exiting...

EXIT


The output, (with command 3 not yet complete), would look LIKE this:

Code: [Select]Running command 1... done!
Running command 2... done!
Running command 3...
You are looking for a way of appending something to the same line?

So you have

Running command 1... (then you run command1) and then you see done! at the end of the same line - is that what you want?

Here is a trick using set /p to show text without a newline:


@echo off
0>nul set /p="Running command1... "
ping www.google.com > nul
echo done!





QUOTE from: Salmon Trout on APRIL 09, 2012, 07:04:07 AM

You are looking for a way of appending something to the same line?