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Percentage in echo ms dos escape characters
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How to escape percent symbol in echo statement 
escape percent symbol in echo statement, if echo contains one percent symbol will give improper output with echo statement, has to replace one percentage to two percentage like below.

Wrong
echo You are 100% sure.

Correct
echo You are 100%% sure.
Example
@echo off
REM how to escape percentage symbol with echo command in ms dos batch file

echo you are 100%% sure.
Output 
you are 100% sure.
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