Why not use @ECHO OFF?

[daxgames]

This is more of a question than an issue.

Why do we litter cmd and bat files with useless @ signs to turn off command echo per line instead of just putting @echo off as the first line of the file?

[jankatins]

I tink mainly because using echo off would also set echo off in the following cmd session.

[daxgames]

I might try that and see. Not sure that's true.

On March 4, 2016 7:40:15 PM Jan Schulz notifications@github.com wrote:

I tink mainly because using echo off would also set echo off in the
following cmd session.

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[daxgames]

Tested, verified safe, and implemented in #873.

[daxgames]

Fixed in #873

[glucas]

I like this pattern for bat files etc:

@echo off
@if not "%ECHO%"=="" echo %ECHO%

By default echo is off, but it makes debugging easy as you can temporarily 'set ECHO=on' in your shell.