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Limiting echo & Output word "on"

#1 Post by drgt » 14 Nov 2021 03:35

1. How to limit what echo is to process, without splitting the line?

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Prompt:>if 2 GTR 1 echo bigger else echo lesser
result: bigger else echo lesser
2. How to echo "ON" instead of turning echo on?
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Re: Limiting echo

#2 Post by T3RRY » 14 Nov 2021 04:44

drgt wrote:
14 Nov 2021 03:35
1. How to limit what echo is to process, without splitting the line?

example

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Prompt:>if 2 GTR 1 echo bigger else echo lesser
result: bigger else echo lesser
2. How to echo "ON" instead of turning echo on?
Your problem is not with echo, it's with your failure to use correct If else syntax:

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if ( command ) else othercommand

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Re: Limiting echo & Output word "on"

#3 Post by drgt » 14 Nov 2021 12:15

Thank you for showing my omission :(
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C:\>if 2 gtr 1 (echo greater) else (echo equal or lesser)
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C:\>echo.on

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Re: Limiting echo & Output word "on"

#4 Post by aGerman » 15 Nov 2021 05:27

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echo(on
Looks definitely weird, but we have lengthy threads here where the outcome is that the lone standing left parenthesis has the fewest side effects, while the period is rather the worst case (even if it is still quite common).

Steffen

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Re: Limiting echo & Output word "on"

#5 Post by drgt » 18 Nov 2021 23:40

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echo(on
Thanks for the alternative.
Searching for "echo the word on" (at least on the first few results) I did not see any references to the "side effects"

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Re: Limiting echo & Output word "on"

#6 Post by jeb » 19 Nov 2021 02:12


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Re: Limiting echo & Output word "on"

#7 Post by drgt » 20 Nov 2021 03:17

Thank you JEB

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