How to overwrite a text file from a batch file

Question

I am aware you can append to the end of a file with batch like so...

echo I like turtles >> file.txt 

but I would like to overwrite the file instead. How could this be done?

Answer 1

Just answered my own question, this works:

echo I like turtles > file.txt                      ^                     |             Just one of these 

Answer 2

You can use > instead of >> : this will overwrite the file