In a Windows Command Prompt (CMD) and PowerShell when you execute the echo command to print some text or redirect it to a file, you can break it into multiple lines.

In Linux you can do this by using the \n .

This short note shows how to break lines and insert new lines using the echo command from the Command Prompt (CMD) and Windows PowerShell.

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Echo “Newline” in CMD & PowerShell

Windows Command Prompt (CMD)

To insert a line break in the Windows Command Prompt, you can use multiple echo commands as follows:

C:\> (echo Line & echo Newline) > file.txt C:\> type file.txt Newline

To print a new line in the Windows Command Prompt, use the echo. , for example:

C:\> (echo Line & echo. & echo Newline) > file.txt C:\> type file.txt Newline

Windows PowerShell

To insert a line break in the Windows PowerShell, you can use the `n character:

PS C:\> echo "Line `n Newline" > file.txt PS C:\> type file.txt Newline

The same `n character can be used to insert a new line in the Windows PowerShell:

PS C:\> echo "Line `n`n Newline" > file.txt PS C:\> type file.txt Newline