echo has four basic usages:

• echo some text to print some text to the console
• echo off to turn off command echoing, compare with the /q options .
• echo on to turn on command echoing
• echo to show if command echoing is turned off or on

Printing empty lines

echo prints an empty line if the command is followed by a colon:

@echo:
@echo An empty line will be printed.
@echo:
@echo a colon following echo did the trick.

As per some answers and comments in this stackoverflow thread , the only (?) safe way is to use echo( . With echo( , it's also possible to print indented text :

@echo(     1
@echo(    1 1
@echo(   1 2 1
@echo(  1 3 3 1
@echo( 1 4 6 4 1
Suppress traling new line
  The bash built-in echo command has the -n options which suppresses new lines.   Unfortunately (but not so surprisingly), cmd.exe's version of echo does not have such an option.   However, the new line of echo can be piped into set /p to write text without trailing new lines: 
  
@echo off
echo | set /p="Writing "
echo | set /p="a "
echo | set /p="text "
echo | set /p="line "
echo | set /p="word "
echo | set /p="for "
echo word.
Github respository about-cmd.exe, path: /commands/echo/suppress-new-line.bat
  This «trick» is also used in the pc.bat batch file which writes the current working directory into the clipboard. 
See also