batch file - echo. is not working? -


i'm creating small program infamous windows update fail in windows 7! i'm using batch reason "echo." isn't showing blank lines. ideas. here's code below

@echo off  :checkprivileges  net file 1>nul 2>nul if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto gotprivileges ) else ( goto getprivileges )   :getprivileges  if '%1'=='elev' (shift & goto gotprivileges)   echo.  echo ************************************** echo invoking administration privledges  echo **************************************  setlocal disabledelayedexpansion set "batchpath=%~0" setlocal enabledelayedexpansion echo set uac = createobject^("shell.application"^) > "%temp%\oegetprivileges.vbs"  echo uac.shellexecute "!batchpath!", "elev", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\oegetprivileges.vbs"  "%temp%\oegetprivileges.vbs"  exit /b   :gotprivileges  :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :start :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: setlocal & pushd . rem run shell admin (example) -  set progfiles86root=%programfiles(x86)% if not "%progfiles86root%"=="" goto win64 set progfiles86root=%programfiles% :win64 cls                                                         :::   _    _ _       _   _           _       _        :::  | |  | |(_)    | | | |         | |     | |       :::  | |  | |_ _ __ | | | |_ __   __| | __ _| |_ ___  :::  | |/\| | | '_ \| | | | '_ \ / _` |/ _` | __/ _ \ :::  \  /\  / | | | | |_| | |_) | (_| | (_| | ||  __/ :::   \/  \/|_|_| |_|\___/| .__/ \__,_|\__,_|\__\___| ::: ======================| |==============fixer v1.0===============                       :::                       |_|                       /f "delims=: tokens=*" %%a in ('findstr /b ::: "%~f0"') @echo(%%a timeout /t 10 >nul cls if exist %systemdrive%\winuf.dll (goto second) else goto begin :begin echo choosing run winupdate fixer echo. echo. echo program attempt fix windows update issues! echo continuing winupdate fixer reset windows update :choice set /p c=do want continue[y/n]? if /i "%c%" equ "y" goto :fix if /i "%c%" equ "n" goto :exit goto :choice   :exit echo. echo. echo anyway! pause exit    :fix rem. > %systemdrive%\winuf.dll echo. echo. echo. echo ******************************************************************************* echo                            fixing windows update echo ******************************************************************************* pause  :second del /q /s /f  %systemdrive%\winuf.dll >nul echo did program work pause 

it's answered in comments, try summarize here.

using echo. bad choice, fails when there exists file named echo without extension in current directory.
, it's ~10 times slower echo( scan current directory.
when start batch slow drive (like network share) can more worse.

as aacini mentioned use many other working variants empty line

echo/ echo: echo\ echo, echo; echo= echo( 

but if want able output variable can contain content , allowed empty, should use echo( seems safe variant.

set "var=any content /? on ..\..\windows\system32\calc.exe etc" echo(!var! 

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