Limiting echo & Output word "on"

[drgt]

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?

[T3RRY]

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

[drgt]

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

[aGerman]

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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

[drgt]

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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"

[jeb]

For reference you could read ECHO. FAILS to give text or blank line - Instead use ...

[drgt]

Thank you JEB