Help echo. is not recognized

[raras]

Dear All,

Could someone help me to make my cmd.exe recognized echo. again?

Before it worked fine in my XP, but after i try redirection command, like this 2>&echo.>>error.txt
it become error...
i can't used echo. anymore...it said 'echo.' is not recognized as an external or internal command.

So help pls, anyone give solution to make it works again...

many thanks

ras

[Dias de verano]

Where did you get this weird code from?

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2>&echo.>>error.txt
What is the 2>& supposed to do?

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C:\>2>&echo.>>error.txt
2>& was unexpected at this time.
try this

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echo.>>error.txt

[raras]

thanks for reply...

yup i khow that's a weird code..because i just create it for my experiments...
here is the detail...
actually before, i used
xcopy %src% %dest% /d /y /i>>report.txt 2>error.txt

it worked ok, and than i tried
(echo. +++date create+++ date /t & time /t)>error.txt
xcopy %src% %dest% /d /y /i>>report.txt 2>error.txt

it became error: file can't create because already hold by other process...

And then i tried weird stuff for error redirection....not only that may be i did something...

but after that i could not used echo. anymore but it work ok with echo only....event a simple code like: echo. Hello word , but worked ok for: echo hello word
i think, i did something that change the cmd.exe...

i already tried to reboot my xp sp2...
still the same if i used echo. ...the same error arised...

thx again...

[Dias de verano]

did you know there is a difference between echo. and echo ?

[raras]

yup.. with echo. we can send blank on our output device...ex:

echo.test
echo.
echo.oc

will give output like this:

test

oc

Not only that of course: it help us easy on typing code..like  echo.On no need to worry echoon mistake,etc
Anyway..i found my mistake..
i think, the command that made it wrong was: xcopy %src% % dest% /d /y 2>echo.>>error.txt
And yup that code is my creation...and of course weird....

I tried to give more detail...after that..
echo. is not recognized.......yeah my mistake was i check command from the same directory...

for that code i used batch file name" test.bat" and from this directory
c:\lab>

and i tried this command
c:\lab>test.bat
and the result was error that i mentioned.

and i tried from root directory
c:\>c:\lab\test.bat
and the same error....hmmm

and after i tried
c:\>echo. Hello word

it's working...

Yeah my mistake was that my weird code before....which was creating file "echo" without any extention...
so from my work directory c:\lab>
echo. always error..

after i delete...."echo"file...
it worked well again..as before normal

as u can see my weird code, made that echo file in my working directory...

thx a lot