When I run a script, for example one that says
echo a>>1.txt
the command line interpreter adds a space; so in the command line, executing the above says
echo a 1>> 1.txt
And of course, the end of the line gets a space, which I do not need.
So then I thought, I will put the echo in parentheses. So my batch file became:
(echo a)>>1.txt
However, the command prompt did not give up with the space. It now says:
(echo a ) 1>> 1.txt
How to get rid of the space? I even tried modifying my file to say
>>1.txt (echo a)
However, the command prompt still re-formats it, and displays the same command as above on the command prompt, and I cannot get rid of the space.
Just for clarification. This question has now been associated with another question, saying it is a duplicate. It is not. The solution in the other question was to use a parenthesis in order to prevent the space from being auto-added. In my question, I already used parentheses in my query.
In this case, the space was coming from the redirection, and the comment to add cmd.exe /c worked to solve my issue.
Your assumption is wrong, the file does not contain a space.
The ECHO ON mode shows (echo a ) 1>out.txt, but it does not execute it with a space.
The resulting file has exactly 3 characters as expected (one "a" and CR/LF)
mytest.bat
@echo off
setlocal
set "prompt=#DEBUG# "
echo ON
(echo a)>out.txt
@echo off
dir out.txt
Output:
#DEBUG# (echo a ) 1>out.txt
Datenträger in Laufwerk Z: ist VBOX_batch
Volumeseriennummer: 0001-0305
Verzeichnis von Z:\bat
06/17/2025 07:35 PM 3 out.txt
1 Datei(en), 3 Bytes