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How to escape characters in string using MS DOS Commands
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Escape characters using ^ Caret symbol  
^ Caret symbol is used to escape special characters in string of ms dos commands. For example > is used to write output to the file but > has to print with the echo command. But it is not escape by echo command because > is used to write echo  output to the file.

 echo welcome > filename.txt
It writes welcome to the file.

 echo a > b means a is big > filename.txt
It write only a to the file. because > has different meaning in the command line. so > has to escape with ^ caret symbol like below.

Valid statement with caret escape character symbol.
 echo a ^> b means a is big > filename.txt

also escape < less than symbol also with ^ caret symbol
echo ^<script^> > hello.html

To escape % symbol in batch file is %%. %% percentage is equals to single %.
Example batch file program
@echo off

echo a is big, which means
echo a ^> b is the expression to test which is big among two numbers.
Demo 
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